'Salute This Happy Morn,' is a book on the Glen Rock Carolers. But it's also a book on Glen Rock, a caption in this 1997 work surmises: 'Perhaps these rocks near his house, exposed by the construction of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, gave William Heathcote an idea for the name of the village he had so large a part in founding. These same tracks have been the site of train wrecks, excursion trains, and most recently, trains of bike riders using of the rail trail running through the borough. Background posts: 'I really like these old pictures of Glen Rock', Former CCC Camp now on the map and AMP's and AMF's alphabet soup spilled in same small town .
Fellow blogger June Lloyd tells the rivoting story of the spectacular train accident that rocked Glen Rock on Good Friday, 1920.
Glen Rock has always been a newsy town. (To provide it, search this blog for all of the posts linked to this southern York County borough.)
Here are some insights into the town, as found in George Prowell's 1907 "History of York County, Pennsylvania," with my own comments in parenthesis:
