Results tagged “Codorus Creek” from York Town Square

Mindi's Place at Market & Penn Street Farmers Market is the primary eatery in York, Pa.'s, west end markethouse. The market is the oldest of five covered markethouses that operated in York. Background posts: There were 5, count 'em, 5 York markets and The ornate, but now-demolished York City Market House in living color and Don't know much about York County history? Part III

They had a growing population and no market to service those folks plus farmers in that end of York, west of the Codorus Creek.

So they created what is today called the Market and Penn Street Farmers Market.

And today, the market is again trying to solve a problem... .

These ornate iron pieces atop the York Elks porch are the type of fine metal work adorning the organization's 233 N. George St. building. (See related image below.) Background posts: York County ... 'A smorgasbord of architectural styles' and York County's connection to the French Quarter and Collector searching for Western Maryland Railroad memorabilia and When the bridge over the Codorus moved

My recent post - Plaques offer historic insight into 'The Swamp,' before Sovereign Bank Stadium drained it - provides a historic look at York's Arch Street area.

But for those parking at Small's Field, north of Codorus Creek, or in the downtown area, south of the creek, their stroll to the park affords many landmarks scrutinize.

My York Sunday News column for July 1, 2007, covers interesting sites as one moves into or out of The Swamp... .

This scene from the 1933 flood shows the old Hotel Codorus, now vastly renovated and the York headquarters for the architectural firm of Dittenhafer & Murphy. That's the Market Street Bridge at right. (See additional photos below.) Background posts: Reader doesn't understand some things about York , Agnes, by the tragic numbers and What's the probability of another flood in York?.

Leon Kohr shared these photos taken during the flood of 1933.

His father drove the family to town in its 1932 Reo to take pictures.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Depression-era flood, another blow to the area during those tough times... .

Dan Meckley's recently compiled memoir is available for viewing at the York County Heritage Trust's archives, 250 E. Market St., York. Background posts: TV show box set 'Terry & the Pirates' to be part of a museum exhibit someday?, Rambo run: One small stream ... so much stress and York Safe & Lock worker recalls chat with Hedy Lamarr.

"I have found trout fly fishermen to be of sterling quality," Dan Meckley wrote in his memoir. "As a group they can be ranked with skiers, squash players, sailors, martini drinkers, and Republicans."

As for worm fishermen?

"On the other hand, worm fishermen can be ranked with snowmobilers, snowboarders, racquetball players, power boaters, beer drinkers and Democrats," he wrote... .

The Cottage Hill College, north of the Codorus Creek in York, Pa., served as a woman's school for about 30 years starting in 1849. The building is believed to have been leveled about 1900. But a vestige of the ornate structure remains - Cottage Hill Road. Jim Rudisill writes in "York, Since 1741" that tuition cost $25 in 1856 and five months of board cost $55. Background posts: Little Jimmy's someday might draw big crowd, Girls touched down in York, Pa., to touch up and Fairmount fit for Roger, Anita and Pongo, Perdita.

The north side of the Codorus Creek has always fascinated me.

Officials continue to peck away at improving that area, overlooking the Northwest Triangle project.

Little Jimmy's Park is being renovated. The Fairmount area of North Beaver looks a lot better. Habitat for Humanity has rehabbed houses near the Jefferson School... .

The ornate ceiling at the York Water Co. rises above cashier Susan Arnold. The water company formed in 1816, in part, because of Codorus Creek pollution. A section of an early log pipe used by the water company can be viewed at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum in York. Background post: York's Reservoir Hill drips with things to see.

Last post explored the popularity of public transportation even in York County's rural areas - something that has been lost in this day of the automobile.

Well, another point about our past - water pollution - has been with us since our earliest days. And unfortunately has not been lost, even in rural areas.

This pedestrian bridge provided a shortcut for North Yorkers walking to York Safe & Lock and other factories on the other side of Codorus Creek. 'That bridge was way down at the end of the (Small's) meadow, built, I guess, by the York Safe and Lock Co.,' Raymond Sechrist wrote in his book "Skinny Dipping in the Codorus"." Background post: York Safe and Lock faltered after founder's death.

Games at York's new baseball stadium are causing people to make the trip from Small Field and North York in greater numbers since the heyday of York Safe & Lock in the first half of the 20th century.

In those days when people walked to work, a pedestrian swinging bridge crossed the Codorus Creek about 3/4 of a mile east of the North George Street Bridge.

Here's how Raymond Sechrist described the bridge:

Bob Kinsley rides Mexican Wave through the Howard Tunnel on the Rail Trail. The tunnel is one of the oldest in the United States.

The tunnel was constructed in 1836-1837 through a hillside between Glatfelter's and Brillhart station. Trains used the hole in the hill to reach York for the first time in 1838. After trains reached York, that started a flow of raw materials to the port of Baltimore and other destinations in the South... .

Steve Young, a dam operator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, walks along Indian Rock Dam. The dam regulates the flow of the main branch of Codorus Creek into the City of York. The dam, which sits 83 feet above the stream, could not completely contain the creek's waters when Tropical Storm Agnes hit in 1972. The dam was constructed in the early 1940s in response to flooding in 1933 and 1936.

Hurricane Agnes, a tropical storm when it hit York County, reigned and rained 35 years ago.

The storm accumulated some big numbers, as found in a York Daily Record story:

The owner of Round the Clock Diner is developing this neighborhood across the road. A Sheetz convenience store will be constructed there.

The struggling residential neighborhood southeast of the Interstate 83 and Route 30 intersection will someday be smooshed to make way for something else. See wrecking ball.

Perhaps it was inevitable that the stranded neighborhood would wither. I-83 severed its connection with North York, and it's surrounded by highway, businesses and the Codorus Creek.

Driving its uneven streets, the neighborhood is a bit like a village that time forgot. Roads that previously ran into North York dead end at the interstate. An uninviting walkway or drainage culvert or some such tunnels under the highway... .

York County labor leader Dick Boyd named his recent memoir "The Bridge," to mark the secluded site where workers secretly met to organize in the 1930s.

They convened under the western end of the railroad bridge across the Codorus, not far from where the the twin-towered Susquehanna Commerce Center is located today. Boyd explains in his autobiography that he walked to the bridge with his father for the quiet meeting lest the company discover union organizing efforts.

I tramped around that part of the bridge a couple of months ago to view the symbolic site where the modern labor movement started in York... .

The York Water Company initially used 10,000 feet of bored logs to transport water to users after it had flowed from springs near Baumgartner's Woods to a reservoir in southeast York.

So, the arch near Arch Street turned out to be a sewer line.

A big sewer line. (See http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_4885322 and York's rail stations scored moments in history.)

And no, it didn't connect with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad, believed to be active in York, did not run underground. Those traveling just seemed to disappear that way when the trail of runaways grew cold with slavecatchers from the South on their heels... .

The Cookes House, one of York's overlooked landmarks, has not escaped the notice of vandals.

On several occasions, vandals have struck one of York's oldest buildings. (See writer Ted Czech's York Daily Record/York Sunday News story below.)