This photograph shows the Codorus Creek near Richland Avenue before flood-control efforts changed its look. A favorite swimming hole located downstream offered birthday-suit-clad bathers - and passengers on passing trains - a summertime thrill. Background post: What is the probability of another flood in York?
The Northwest Triangle project borders the Codorus Creek near an old turn-of-the-20th-century swimming hole.
Raymond Sechrist recalled in the 1991 book "Skinny Dipping in the Codorus" that the popular hole was centered in the creek between the Pennsylvania Railroad and West Maryland Railroad bridges. (The swimming stop was located between 11 and 12 o'clock on this Northwest Triangle map.)
The boys in the buff swimming there would give train passengers a jolt - but that's getting ahead of the story... .
