This drawing, from a 1720 Herman Moll map, shows the Susquehannock village in York County located in what is today's Native Lands County Park.

In 1931, a segregated Black school was named in honor of longtime York educator.

The Goodridge Freedom Center is not on a corner in York. But it stands at the intersection of three major pre-Civil War moments.

Rhoda Hawkins is one of many people remembered as important in the lives of Codorus Street residents. She operated a shop on Codorus Street.

William Shelton, a WWII veteran, was interred in York's City Cemetery because he could not afford a proper burial. He was moved to Indiantown Gap in 1985 with full military honors.

P.S. Weaver, a Hanover photographer, captured this scene of the exhumation of the bodies of Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Hanover. This scene comes from the German Reformed Church's cemetery. The worker in the vest is presumed to be freedman Basil Biggs, a noted Adams County veterinarian.

From left, Bobby Simpson. Ray Crenshaw and Dan Elby - three builders of Crispus Attucks Community Center, a York organization that is in the "character-building" business.

See a community need? Consider doing it yourself as YoKo and Robert Enomoto did in planting a community garden on a vacant lot near their home at South Penn Street and West College Avenue in York.

When Margaret Williams died - an infant from a poor family - no one was there at York's potter's field to dig her grave. A dispute erupted between the undertaker and the gravedigger.

Florence Gipe made a mark locally, moved to Maryland where she helped build nursing education nationally and returned to her home county to continue her contributions.