Category Archives: mills

Adventures of a York County native

Posted on August 7, 2012 by june lloyd

A few months ago I did a post on Henry Smeych, who claimed to have captured John Wilkes Booth’s horse on which Booth escaped after assassinating President Lincoln. At 87, Smeych, born in Chanceford Township in October 1837, talked at … Continue reading →

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New Book on York County, Pennsylvania Mills

Posted on November 23, 2010 by june lloyd

Biesecker’s Mill on the Little Conewago York County Heritage Trust will launch its latest publication, Millers’ Tales: The Mills of York County, this Saturday, November 27 with a public program. The event will be held a 1 p.m. at the … Continue reading →

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Small Family Left a Large Mark on York County

Posted on June 21, 2010 by june lloyd

Philip A. Small examining Christian Roth’s wheat Whenever I start researching some York County history, it seems like someone from the Small family turns up. Pennsylvania German immigrant Lorentz Small settled in Windsor Township in 1743, but soon the family … Continue reading →

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York Flour Mill Burned, but Not by Confederates

Posted on January 15, 2010 by june lloyd

Pass issued to Samuel Small by General Early’s aide-de-camp. Did one of P.A. & S. Small’s grist mills burn during the Civil War? Yes. Was it burned by the General Jubal Early’s Confederate soldiers? No. Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has … Continue reading →

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York Employers Allows Workers to Keep Gold

Posted on December 7, 2009 by june lloyd

I was researching something else on newspaper microfilm the other day, but with the current price of gold over $1,200 an ounce, the article below caught my eye. It is from the July 31, 1934 issue of the York Dispatch. … Continue reading →

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Monaghan Farm Good Bargain in 1816

Posted on January 29, 2009 by june lloyd

The real estate notice below, from the November 7, 1816 York Gazette, is a great example of the wealth of information available in newspapers from the past. Such descriptions are often detailed, giving us an idea of how our forebears … Continue reading →

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York Haven Suspicious of Slavs

Posted on September 26, 2008 by june lloyd

It was 1908. Although their families had been immigrants only a hundred years or so before, some York County people weren’t too sure about the new immigrants coming in to work at plants, mills and quarries or to build roads. … 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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Rise in Flour Prices a Good Thing for York County in 1828

Posted on April 9, 2008 by june lloyd

You have probably noticed your bread costs more lately. The rise in the price of flour has been blamed on several factors.

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New Invention in Lower Windsor Township

Posted on February 24, 2008 by june lloyd

George Anstine’s Patented Threshing Machine, 1843. I recently wrote about the blossoming of York County inventors in the mid- nineteenth century. Click here to read previous post on inventions. Read the 1843 ad below to find out just how George … Continue reading →

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