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May 5, 2008

Forest Fires Hit York County in the Past

 — June Lloyd (10:51 PM)

Doing a Google search on forest fires is eye opening. As I write this, fires are raging in the mountains of New Mexico; tigers and elephants are threatened by the fires in two national parks in India; and 45 forest fires have started in Irkutsk, Russia the past few days.

I don’t recall any major forest fires in York County lately. That wasn’t always the case.

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Posted in 1920s Lower Chanceford Twp. Shrewsbury Township Universal York York County York Furnace fires
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March 9, 2008

From York County to the Wider World

 — June Lloyd (10:43 PM)

York County is part of what is known as a “cultural hearth,” an area from which ideas and culture spread throughout much of the country as settlers moved on.

In a recent post, I showed how the Great Wagon road, shown on the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map, carried pioneers to the south and west. Click here for that post.

That was only the beginning.

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Posted in 1800s Lower Chanceford Twp. Presbyterians Scots-Irish Universal York York County genealogy migration
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