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
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, leaders in the Bottstown section of York sought to solve a problem.
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... .
