Four generations of the Stayer family, descendants of Adam Stayer, conscientious objectors in the Civil War.

People escaping bondage could stand on Yellow Hill and gaze across the Mason-Dixon Line, a mere 20 miles away, and whisper to themselves “I’m free.” A form of self-imposed, collective emancipation.

York County Courthouse scorecard: Two demolished. One almost knocked down and then expanded - it would have been replaced with the structure in this rendering. One bland courthouse built.

York County used to be covered in farmland. Now, those agricultural acres are shrinking. Here is a story of one man's life and the tough mother who raised him and his 11 siblings.

These craftsmen show how to split slate quarried from a long ridge in the Delta-Peach Bottom region of York County.

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 next episode of Hometown History's Season 3 will focus on York County's agricultural past.

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.