Results tagged “Penn Street Farmers Market” from York Town Square

The Farmers Market at Penn and Market in York sustained damage after a driver ran into it in 1992. Efforts are under way to reinvigorate the markethouse, the oldest of five such markets in York. Background posts: Don't know much about local market history? and There were 5, count 'em, 5 York markets and York's Central Market sells steak ... and sizzle.

A grass roots group is forming to strengthen the oldest York markethouse, the Penn Street Farmers Market.

To the eye, the markethouse, constructed just after the Civil War, has struggled in recent years.

Among other things, the group is pushing a niche product that was the mainstay of York's five covered markets since they started cropping up in the last half of the 19th century - fresh food... .

The turn-of-the-century Carlisle Avenue Market represents the last of the great indoor market houses to be built.

And it's the most recent one to make the news, as the soon-to-be-renovated home of Dreamwrights, a local theater group.

So, the scorecard for the five market houses: two still in use, one demolished, and two used for different purposes.

One wonders about the future of the two still in operation: Central Market and Penn Street Farmers Market... .