So the winner for the best G of York County is…
Glatfelter! Funnily, no one suggested this, at least not that I’m aware of – I put it in because it comes up often in our reporting! You can read lots and lots about it at the link above – the paper’s coverage page – and also over on York Town Square.
I do have to give a shout-out to brother-in-law extraordinaire Mike, as well as Mark and Dianne, who suggested what are some darn good other possibilities for G, the Golden Plough Tavern and the Gates House in York.
Mike was good enough to do some research on them that I’ll include here, as the Plough Tavern was definitely a runner-up. He says, “Golden Plough Tavern – The Golden Plough Tavern, built in 1741, is the second of the two major restorations in the heart of downtown York. It is situated at its original location – Lot #120 in the plan of York as surveyed and laid out by Thomas Cookson in 1741. Built originally as a tavern, it contains much of the original construction which is representative of a type almost non-existent today. It is believed that the early appearance of the Plough Tavern, once a freestanding structure before the erection of the General Gates House next door was the same as the building today.”
Anyway, now it’s time to start voting for your favorite H and to post comments with suggestions for the best I for next week’s poll, if you haven’t already. There are lots of “H” options, so there’s no excuse not to vote! Please note! I got one late-breaking “H” submission and I missed one that had been submitted before, so I changed the poll options. However, if you already voted, it did reset the votes to zero, so please vote again! I’m sorry!
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Indian Rock Dam – Background: The protective works for York, Pennsylvania, consist of Indian Rock Dam about 3 miles upstream from York, and channel improvements on Codorus Creek in the city itself. Indian Rock Dam is an earth and rock structure 1,000 feet long rising 83 feet above the streambed, with a side-channel spillway and gated outlet conduit in the right abutment. The normally dry reservoir area has a storage capacity of 28,000 acre-feet (9.1 billion gallons) at spillway crest and controls a drainage area of 94 square miles, equivalent to 41 percent of the watershed upstream from York. The Codorus Creek project consists chiefly of 22,969 feet of channel improvement including channel widening and deepening, flood walls, levees, protection of bank slopes, and removal of a mill dam which increased channel capacity to 24,000 cubic feet per second. The two components protect the community against flood discharges about 33 percent greater than the record flood of August 1933. Tropical Storm Agnes (June 1972) filled the flood control reservoir and produced spillway flow.
Type of Project: Flood Damage Reduction
Flood Damages Prevented: Flood damages prevented through FY 2007 are estimated at $54,582,000.
Cost: The Federal cost of the project was $5,060,000 and was completed in September 1942.
All the “H” words are York, for sure, but only one can I go anywhere around York and not see it plastered all over people’s clothing. Not much choice on this one.