Results tagged “Pleasureville” from York Town Square

The 1901 book 'York and York County' included this photo of the vaulted basement of Cresap's Fort or Dritt Mansion. The restored Long Level structure perched along the Susquehanna River south of Wrightsville, Pa., today is headquarters for Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area, the former Lancaster-York Heritage Region. It's a National Register of Historic Places site. Also of interest: Where exactly is the York/Lancaster border? and Native Americans help clean up Dritt family cemetery in new York County park and Gettysburg-area National Register homestead gives snapshot of pressures facing farms.

The Leinhardt Brothers Furniture Warehouse in West York was formerly home of the Ashley and Bailey Company Silk Mill and was also known as the Franklin Silk Mill.

And noted York architect John A. Dempwolf did, indeed, design the York Silk Manufacturing Co. in East York.

Recent posts on those two landmark York-area buildings have raised such questions.

People in York County like their old buildings.

So, here's a resource to find out more about them and other historic structures in York County and beyond... .

Fastnachts (fost-nokts) await transport to customers at the Stewartstown Senior Center today, Fastnaught Day. (See additional York Daily Record/Sunday News photos below.) Background posts: Classes offer rare op to learn Pennsylvania Dutch - Part II and PS Harrisburg grad school: 'Set my feet even more firmly on the path into the world of Fraktur' and Noted Pennsylvania German art historian will be missed.

In a York Daily Record/Sunday News story today (2/24/09), writer Barb Krebs answered two basic questions about Fastnachts:

Question 1: What is a Fastnacht, in the first place?

Answer: A Fastnacht is a yeast-raised potato pastry that is deep fried like a doughnut. The name fastnacht is German for "fast night," and the tradition of making them began with the Pennsylvania Dutch as a way to use up the lard, sugar, fat and butter that are forbidden during Lent.

Question 2: What makes a fastnacht different from a regular doughnut? ...

Quickel Church in Conewago Township, built in 1857 and scene of human stampede during a 1907 funeral. (Courtesy, Norma Bear Gates)

The shooting deaths of the Hoover teens causes an overflow turn out for their funeral at Zion View's Quickel Church. (For more on those deaths, click here.)

And more misfortune.

According to "Never to be Forgotten:" ...

Nothing had happened like that in Pleasureville before or since.

It was 100 years ago when two brothers were shot in the Springettsbury Township village.

William E. and Curvin Hoover were wounded about midnight in what was described as a drunken brawl on a Saturday in November 1907.

For six hours, they lay alive, "weltering" in their own blood, according to a newspaper account reported in "Never to be Forgotten."

That occurred, even though some villagers witnessed the shooting... .