Results tagged “Rutter's” from York Town Square

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Clair Long remembers when his parents, Alva R. and Mary Long, lived in Springettsbury Township's Meadowbrook Mansion.

And he and his wife Jorene resided in another house on the farm. Borders Books stands today in the vicinity of Long's former living room.

He shared memories of his former 180-acre farm after reading about the Meadowbrook and its former grounds in the news. The saga of Mother Goose and her goslings made it to the front page. It was a story of a Canada goose trying to subsist among sprawl... .

After you've visited Round Hill Presbyterian Church in Cross Roads, consider other points of interest in the Chanceford Township-area of southeastern part of York County in your Sunday afternoon drive. (See previous post: "Get around to seeing ornate Round Hill church.")

-- Hershaull Park, near Round Hill church, sports a ball field that abuts a cornfield. Put in bleachers, and it's a small-scale version of that famous field from "Field of Dreams. ... "

A provocative mark of change in York County surrounds the Rutter's convenience store on Lightner Road in Manchester Township.

That Rutter's spread is on company land, originally settled by Jacob Rutter and Nathaniel Lightner in 1747.

On the hill behind the store, several sprawling homes have served as the residences of family members... .

Paul Kuehnel of the York Daily Record/Sunday News has produced a video showing an operational old-time gas/electric Rutter's Daily milk truck.

That truck, seen nowadays at the York Fair, aided in milk delivery years ago. (See Paul's video below.)

More recently, the last-known milkman to make deliveries in the York area was a Rutter's route man, John Schwartz.

That came in 1994, after Schwartz had been making deliveries for 45 years.

Rutter's opened its first convenience stores in York in 1968, the beginning of the end for home deliveries... .

"Buggies. Milkmen. Now mailboxes?"

The head on a recent York Daily Record/Sunday News' story gave a good summary about the U.S Postal Service's survey of which big blue mailboxes around York to eliminate.

E-mail and use of the Web to pay bills has cut into snail mail traffic.

Some might wonder when the last the last bottle of milk was eliminated in the York area.

The answer is 1994, perhaps.

The following from "Never to be Forgotten" tells the story: