Historian Jamie Noerpel & Archivist Domi Miller are conversational. They’re fun. They’re passionate about local history. Without flinching, they take on challenging stories about York County’s past. Their base is the northeastern York County village of Newberrytown. That’s where they live. And they move to sites around YoCo to talk about their native county. They are the co-hosts of Hometown History.
Longtime York County families might have ancestors who enslaved Black people. Some of those families who held people in bondage are buried in Bupp's Church Cemetery in Springfield Township, as is the case in scores of cemeteries in the county. Generally, those who were enslaved and their descendants were buried in all-Black cemeteries spread throughout the county.
It only took one remark to break the long-held tension between York County police and the Black community, and it was one based in humility.
In a season of dry weather, this land bridge - likely and old road - emerges from the depths of Lake Marburg at Codorus State Park in southwestern York County.
The old Keystone Color Works combines the ideas of creatives - a past maker of dyes for wallpaper - and recreationists - the rail trail is next door - that are helping to fuel York County's economy.
One of many cultural or historical restoration projects or new builds going up around York County: When the King Family of King's Mill fame built this house, it was known as the Mansion House. Later, it became Schmidt & Ault's mill offices. Today, it's part of York College's Knowledge Park and it's known as the Diehl House at Schmidt & Ault.
Continental Congress experienced highs, lows and the rigors of life on a frontier when they made York the national capital for nine months in 1777-78.
This Paradise Township farmhouse emerged from obscurity for a moment eight score years ago for a short day that merits a long chapter in York County's story.
In the mid-1700s, the neighborhood west of the Codorus was tagged Bottstown. Mr. Bott wanted his town to compete with York, over there to the east. But York got the head start, annexed Bott’s town in the 1880s and, over time, drew much of the city’s investment. Now there’s a plan that features the best things about Penn Street, an important neighborhoods on the Codorus’ west bank.
Four generations of the Stayer family, descendants of Adam Stayer, conscientious objectors in the Civil War.