Results tagged “New Salem Borough” from York Town Square

This view, courtesy York County Heritage Trust, shows York looking south toward Webb's or Shenk's Hill in 1852. The Harrisburg road, now North George Street crosses the Codorus Creek Bridge on its way into Centre Square. Small Field lays to the left of the bridge bordering the creek. Hikers and bikers will get a better view of Small Field in the next few years when the 5.5-mile rail trail extension is completed between Manchester Township's Rudy Park and York's downtown.Background posts: When the bridge over the Codorus moved, WWII rocked towns across York County and There's oil in those New Salem hills.

Bob Riese of Spring Garden Township doesn't understand some things about York County.

So he wrote a letter to the editor published recently with the title "Things I don't understand."

Maybe others don't understand either. So I'll take a stab at his questions:

Still on York New Salem, officially known as New Salem Borough.

While looking at a list of those killed in World War II a few years ago, I notice several from that borough on the list.

OK, many towns sustained heavy losses in World War II, as did York County overall with a count of 570 or more.

But the names coming from York New Salem did not strike me as the German names generally found in that part of York County... .