Category Archives: clothing

York’s Bee Hive for style in the nineteen-teens

Posted on April 29, 2012 by june lloyd

In my York Sunday News column few months ago I wrote about the wealth of local history you can find in City Directory Collection at York County Heritage Trust. The advertisements alone paint a picture of how our families lived … Continue reading →

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York Department Store Makes Sure Customers Get Stockings During World War II

Posted on August 6, 2011 by june lloyd

The Bon-Ton, Market & Beaver, York, c. 1945 The first priority during World War II was supplying the armed forces.. Silk, and then the fairly new fiber, nylon, were needed for parachutes and other uses. That made women’s stocking hard … Continue reading →

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York County, PA in 1828–What’s a Fulling Mill?

Posted on April 27, 2008 by june lloyd

We know York County had a lot of different mills. Click here to read about the many mills of York County. Sawmills sawed trees into boards, and grist mills ground grain. What purpose did a fulling mill serve? In a … Continue reading →

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Pennsylvania Man Leaves Wife and Children, Runs Off with Another Woman

Posted on April 23, 2008 by june lloyd

We tend to think of our ancestors and their contemporaries as very strait-laced. Sometimes nothing can be farther from the truth. That’s what is so fascinating about using original documents as historical sources. Those letters, diaries, and newspapers they left … Continue reading →

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York County Deserter Sought

Posted on April 18, 2008 by june lloyd

It was April 1777. The Revolutionary War was not going well. Desertion was rampant. General Washington had said as much in a letter he wrote to his brother John on February 24. Click here to read that letter at the … Continue reading →

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Blacksmith Apprentice Runaway in York County, PA

Posted on April 8, 2008 by june lloyd

Runaway ads were fairly common in eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers. Sometimes the runaways were slaves, but not so often above the Mason-Dixon line, where there were fewer slaves. In Pennsylvania it was frequently a servant or an apprentice who … Continue reading →

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Shop in York Town for Your Bandanoes, Ozenbrigs, and Bohea Tea

Posted on March 13, 2008 by june lloyd

I am presently working with the issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette printed in York in 1777-1778. In 1934 Henry Young, who at the time was most of the staff of the Historical Society of York County, gathered photostatic copies of … Continue reading →

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Win a new 1958 Renault Dauphine at the York County Shopping Center

Posted on October 23, 2007 by june lloyd

That’s what the York County Shopping Center (now York Marketplace) on East Market Street was offering in celebration of its Second Anniversary fifty years ago. Does anyone know who won the brand new 1958 rear-engine Renault Dauphine automobile? It was … Continue reading →

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York County’s Fabulous Fifties – or Not?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by june lloyd

50 years ago, you could buy a three, five, seven, or nine-piece chrome or wrought-iron dinette set at York Supply Company, 43-45 West Market Street, starting at $39 to $50 for the set. While you were there, you might as … Continue reading →

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