Click here for the Library of Congress zoomable 1751 Fry-Jefferson map.
I recently wrote about York County residents being recruited to move to Virginia in the 1870s. Click here to read that post.
There were several paths, following very early roads, from South Central Pennsylvania to less populated lands.
Prosperity seems to have come to the York County of 140 years ago, if the ads in the December 31, 1867 issue of the York Gazette are any indication.
Entrepreneurs and agents from New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Adams County were offering investment opportunities.
Real estate was enticingly offered by New Oxford Agent J. C. Zouck as an appeal to:
“CAPITALISTS
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST!”
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