Results tagged “York Water Company” from York Town Square

Cartoonist Walt Partymiller applauds the decision in Lancaster to fluoridate in October 1960. The artist never was able to give kudos for such a vote by the York Water Co. Background posts: Mile-a-minute weed's York County origin questioned and Where is the world is Webb's Hill?and York's Reservoir Hill: 'My 'reward' was to sit in the gazebo at the top of the hill'.

The 1960s was not the York area's finest decade.

Its leaders tore down irreplaceable buildings. They further tore at the community's social fabric with their attack dogs and prickly attitudes toward race relations.

They tried to solve a mid-decade drought by calling in a rainmaker... .

This gazebo on Reservoir Hill overlooking York has been the scene of many events, including wedding parties and folks with jacknifes who deface this historic structure by carving in initials. Background posts:
This Smoketown now rests on York County lake floor, Mile-a-minute weed's York County origin questioned and Rainmaker's visit indicated much awry in York.

The gazebo atop York's Reservoir Hill is an obscure landmark that deserves to be discovered.

It just stands there day after day, a local reminder of the internationally acclaimed 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia... .

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... .

The York Water Company initially used 10,000 feet of bored logs to transport water to users after it had flowed from springs near Baumgartner's Woods to a reservoir in southeast York.

So, the arch near Arch Street turned out to be a sewer line.

A big sewer line. (See http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_4885322 and York's rail stations scored moments in history.)

And no, it didn't connect with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad, believed to be active in York, did not run underground. Those traveling just seemed to disappear that way when the trail of runaways grew cold with slavecatchers from the South on their heels... .

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... .