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 Anstine's threshing machine worked.

Posted in 1840s Universal York York County advertising agriculture farm machinery grain inventions mills

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The Lewis Miller drawing above shows a busy King’s Mill in 1799.

In a previous post I mentioned that, now and in the past, we are impressed by the biggest and the best. Sometimes, though, we must stop and wonder if figures have been exaggerated or misreported.

The following small item caught my eye while reading the York Gazette microfilm at York County Heritage Trust. The newspaper was from the fall of 1877.

Posted in 1870s East Hopewell Twp. Universal York York County agriculture farming grain industry maps mills water power

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A few days ago I wrote about York County's continuing love affair with the oyster. Many people will tell you that with good oysters you need good beer.

Breweries abounded over the years in York, as evidenced by the following 1857 advertisement from the Gazette. One hundred fifty years ago, brothers D. W. Barnitz and A. M. Barnitz were turning good York County barley and rye into equally good York County beer.

Click here to read more about the Barnitz family of brewers.

The Lewis Miller drawing above shows a previous generation of the Barnitz family at their brew house with a crowd of Yorkers, carrying empty pitchers, advancing on them. Miller captioned it "The Old Brew house in the year 1801. The[y] made Good Beer."

The ad reads:

Posted in 1850s Universal York York City advertising brewers drinks farming grain history manufacturing oysters retail stores

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