A large crowd listens to big band music over the weekend at Dills Tavern, part of Dillsburg's175th anniversary festivities. The tavern serviced the plentiful passengers on the Harrisburg and Baltimore Turnpike, as they passed through the notch in the mountains. Background posts: Franklintown second cousin to neighboring Dillsburg, Flag expert: 'I was interested in my nation's heritage', Dillsburg's Jane Alexander pioneering county woman in state politics
The York Daily Record/Sunday News story (8/23/08) called Dillsburg York County's
"wild child."
The 175th-anniversary celebration over the weekend was, indeed, a bright moment in the northwest York County borough.
The wild child comment brings to mind the most celebrated wedding of a townsman - or townswoman.
Anne Dill, 24 years old and the beautiful widow of a descendant of the town's founder, married the distinguished clergyman and Declaration of Independence signer John Witherspoon... .
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