Did you know people from this area were actively recruited to move to Virginia?
I knew that as the families of Pennsylvania German and Scots-Irish of South Central Pennsylvania grew, parts of those families migrated down through Western Maryland and Western Virginia. As those areas filled up, the progression continued to the south or to the west. That is why so many people from all over the country come back to York County to find their roots.
I didn’t know, however, that Virginians were coming here to extol the virtues of living in their state as late as 1877.
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