Gov. George M. Leader signs plans on March 19, 1958, for constructing the dam which formed the lake that became the centerpiece of Gifford Pinchot State Park in northern York County. Legislative aid and brother Henry B. Leader looks on. The location was chosen, according to The Gazette and Daily where this photograph was taken, because it was equidistant between York and Harrisburg.
The picture shows two York County brothers signing final dam plans for the lake that would keynote Gifford Pinchot State Park.
Gov. George M. Leader and legislative aide Henry B. Leader looked proud in a photograph published nearly 50 years ago in The Gazette and Daily on March 19, 1958.
They were doing something good for their home county... .
