Category Archives: Delta Welsh quarryman

Delta-Peach Bottom slate splitter (say that fast 3 times) coming to Stewartsown

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Jim McClure

Author and historian Roger Wilson will demo the practice of slate splitting (say that fast three times) at a Stewartstown, Pa., Historical Society demonstration on May 8. Wilson will talk about the Welsh and their slate quarrying in the Delta-Peach Bottom area in the 19th century.

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Welsh brought unique culture to corner of York County: Linked in with neat York County history stuff, Sept. 5, 2012

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers the old Gettysburg Cyclorama, what’s left of Foustown’s smokestack and Delta’s Old Line Museum.

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How should the newest lake in York County be used?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Jim McClure

No, this is not Crater Lake in the Northwest. It sits in West Manchester Township, in a former quarry. In other places, abandoned quarries have been used as amusement parks, recreational lakes, nature preserves and botanical gardens. What do you … Continue reading →

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York County slate mining 21st-century style: Linked in with neat history stuff, Feb. 6, 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Jim McClure

  Slate mining was a primary occupation among the Welsh in southeastern York County, Pa., from about 1850 to World War I. But here Joey L. Wildasin of Joey L. Wildasin Slate Roofing mines slates in a different way. He … Continue reading →

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Trestles, tunnels, swimming pools: Bringing together a rich assortment of Ma & Pa Railroad memories

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Jim McClure

This Maryland and Pennsylvania Circular, No. 116, officially creates a flag stop at Spangler’s swimming pool. This recreational spot later became Springwood Park  at mile post 71.5 on the railroad.  Many people today remember the York Township pool with its … Continue reading →

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Part II: The origin of ‘Peach Bottom’ is unknown, but its name is everywhere in southeastern York County

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Jim McClure

Students walks around an African-American Cemetery in Peach Bottom Township in York County’s southeastern corner on a cleanup mission. Also of interest: Photographer tramps to far reaches of York County and Were the Welsh quarrymen from York County, Pa.’s, Delta-Peach … Continue reading →

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The origin of ‘Peach Bottom’ is unknown, but its name is everywhere in southeastern York County

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Jim McClure

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station is just one of the southeastern York County, Pa., entities that appropriated the Peach Bottom name. (See second photograph from Peach Bottom Township below.) Also of interest: Stone structures tell York countians how their ancestors … Continue reading →

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Found: One slate-roofed outhouse – Linked in with neat York County history stuff – July 10, 2011

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Jim McClure

York countian Dianne Bowders captures this image of a small slate-roofed outhouse in the woods behind the Coulsontown miners cottages. That outhouse, or one like it, was the subject of a query a couple of years ago from a Seattle … Continue reading →

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Were the Welsh quarrymen from York County, Pa.’s, Delta-Peach Bottom region big readers?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jim McClure

York countian Dianne Bowders captures the interior of a quarryman’s cottage in the restored town of Coulsontown, Peach Bottom Township, in the southeastern tip of York County. She wrote in ‘Your Photos’, ydr.com’s reader-submitted photo section: “The interior of the … Continue reading →

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Delta Welsh homecoming offers opportunity to learn about culture of slate miners

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jim McClure

Glenn Grove of Delta is a member the Welsh choir Cor Rehoboth and a tour guide of Welsh burial markers made of slate. Here, he walks through the Slateville Presbyterian Church cemetery. ‘Er Cof’ is Welsh for ‘In Memory.’ Background … Continue reading →

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