A while ago I wrote about how we like to impress others with what we have--the biggest and best.
Click here to read about giant pumpkins and corn.
The Hanover newspapers reported on the really big black snakes seen in that part of the county in May of 1878.
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McCall's Ferry (Holtwood) Power Plant Under Construction, ca.1907.
Electric power was on the front page 100 years ago. The Merchants Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company distributed hydroelectricity generated by the York Haven Water and Power Company, which utilized giant Kaplan turbines. These turbines were manufactured in York by the S. Morgan Smith Company.
When York Haven went on line in 1904, they were said to be one of the three largest water powered electric plants in the world. Just three years later, by the fall of 1907, there was a much larger hydro project underway. A 3,000 feet long high dam was being constructed at McCall’s Ferry. A Gazette article of the time reported that it was believed that York, as well as Baltimore, would be receiving electric current from the McCall’s Ferry Power Company by August of 1908.
Two days after the initial article another article appeared in the Gazette that raised doubts about the McCall’s Ferry project:
