York really is the center of the universe, especially when you consider its place in historical events. Local historian June Lloyd looks at how things have converged on our hometown, past and present.
An Earlier View of Market and Beaver Streets by William Wagner with National House on Left.
I recently wrote about a rowdy York citizen swinging a Civil War cavalry sword around a local cigar store in 1877.
Click here to read about the sword incident.
That York Gazette article referred to even more excitement the previous week in the same neighborhood at Market and Beaver Streets.
I recently wrote about a Confederate sword that a farmer plowed up near Hanover in 1882, nearly 20 years after it had fallen in a skirmish there.
Click here to read about sword on Forney farm.
There were probably a lot of swords around York County in the years after the Civil War, brought home as souvenirs of that dreadful conflict.
Drinking and weapons of any kind shouldn’t go together, as we can see in the following article from the October 30, 1877 Gazette. (The anonymous reporter had a rather droll sense of humor--a 19th century Mike Argento?)
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