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Obscure York hallway features famous newspaper front pages: Linked in to...
The YDR’s Mark Walters blogged over at YDR Insider about famous front pages that line a hallway at York Newspaper Company. Mark’s comment: ‘If you lived in York during 2001, you have to remember this...
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York’s 200-year-old Philip King House: ‘Its life still appears to be strong’
King’s Mill Manor House is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. Or maybe not celebrating. It’s deteriorating near the old mill on the bank of the Codorus Creek. Fortunately, York College of...
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Hollywood meets Hanover over pretzels: Linked in to York County history, 5/2/13
Ma & Pa Railroad/Jeb Stuart’s jump/Historic York speech Hollywood met Hanover the other day, according to a Hanover (Pa.) Evening Sun story about Revonah Pretzel Bakery. A film crew was in gaining...
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York, Pa., meets William C. Goodridge, former slave and successful...
Robert Brinson, a reenactor portraying William C. Goodridge, played the role of the 19th-century former slave and businessman in the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Remembrance Day event in Manchester...
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York, Pa.’s touted Lafayette Toast is mostly a boast?
This painting shows Marquis de Lafayette toasting George Washington, a longtime fixture in the old Lafayette Club in York, Pa. The impact of this toast is controverted. Some students of history say it...
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History mystery photo: What historic York, Pa., building frames this snow scene?
Linked in/Neat stuff: York’s beautiful buildings/Jazz Vespers at First Pres History mystery scene: Can you ID this historic, 19th-century building whose doors provide a frame for this photograph in...
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The 4 Yorkbloggers still writing about history. But make that 5.
Readers discovered the old York, Pa., Hiway Theater in June 2013 when Yorkblogger Joan Concilio compiled memories of this long-gone moviehouse and others. This is one way that Yorkbloggers ply their...
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Wanted: Fresh eyes, new insights in York County’s history community
Journalist/historian Ted Sickler works with York County Heritage Trust’s Lila Fourhman-Shaull on an upcoming book about people drawn by 19th-century York, Pa., artist Lewis Miller. Before turning to...
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High Rock in York County, Pa. So, which High Rock is this?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Outfitting the CW re-enactor/All roads lead to York Post by Christopher A. Otto. +++ Chris Otto tells us about all kinds of interesting things over at Papergreat.com. He found the...
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Original Yorkblog.com history writer now doing ‘something completely...
Also below: See photo of Saginaw’s Meadowbrook Pool, from Joan Concilio’s Only in York County blog Yorkblogger June Lloyd writes about a lot of interesting things in York County’s past. A specialty is...
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