Results tagged “Webb's Hill” from York Town Square

It's not clear about the date and which York newspaper this story ran in, but it provides an account of James Garfield's visit to York before his presidency. The full article is available at the York County Heritage Trust archives. (To see a list of other presidential visits, click here.) Background posts: Piece of John Wilkes Booth's body to be shown in Philly and Presidents visit York, alive and via funeral trains and A Civil War Black Republican: 'He robs birds' nests ... sucks hens' eggs'.

A large crowd observed the funeral train of assassinated president James A. Garfield pass through York on Sept. 23, 1881.

"Lest the gesture of standing in silence with bared heads should seem too meagre in its expression of bereavement such as this, billows of flowers had been strewn between the tracks and floral wreaths were brought to be tossed aboard the coaches," a newspaper reported.

Before his presidency, Garfield visited his friend, former James Buchanan cabinet member Jeremiah S. Black, in York... .

The York Water Company's reservoir is atop Webb's Hill, also known as Shank's or Shenk's Hill. The fountain in foreground is gone, but a beautiful pagoda made from vines is worth exploring. The reservoirs are now covered.

Jack Stuckey, jrstuckey@verizon.net, has queried about the location of Webb's Hill. He has an relative with that surname.

He asked about Slate Ridge, too... .

York Water Company's then-uncovered reservoirs overlook York in this turn-of-the-century photo. The fountain also is no longer there.

If unsung York Valley Inn is tucked away in the middle of a cemetery, York Water Company's reservoirs are hidden in plain view atop a hill.

Many folks have never been back to the twin reservoirs off Grantley Road, the impoundments that give Reservoir Hill its name... .