Results tagged “Thomas Paine” from York Town Square

This graphic from the "Recapture the Riverfront" booklet shows Martin Luther King Jr. Park. The Cookes House, where Thomas Paine reportedly stayed, sits to the left of Penn Street in the west corner of the park. It's now in private hands. Background posts: Helen Reeves Thackston's name lives on and Worker saved key historical surveys from Glatfelter pulping machine and York's housing stock not that revolutionary.

Carl Huber's recent e-mail raises a good question.

The 200th anniversary of pamphleteer Thomas Paine's death is coming up.

Are there any historical markers in the York area observing his time here during the American Revolution?

The short answer is that there are none... .

This graphic from the "Recapture the Riverfront" booklet raises the possibility of relocating Helen Thackston Park from the north side of West College Avenue across the street to the side south, where public housing now stands. Background posts: Helen Reeves Thackston's name lives on and Histories attempt to fill blanks in women's, black history.

A potentially controversial proposal to relocate Thackston Park touches on several historic sites in that part of town.

First, the park itself points to a revered community matriarch: Helen Reeves Thackston.

As director of the Crispus Attucks Early Learning Center from 1932 to 1964, she touched the lives of hundreds of people who gratefully remember her contributions.

"Helen didn't just teach children, she taught them to be proud," Sylvia Newcombe, retired York Recreation Commission head, said in 1979... .

The Cookes House, one of York's overlooked landmarks, has not escaped the notice of vandals.

On several occasions, vandals have struck one of York's oldest buildings. (See writer Ted Czech's York Daily Record/York Sunday News story below.)