Category Archives: Genealogy/research

POW camps: How many have operated in York County, 2 or 3 or 4?

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Jim McClure

Nineteenth-century artist Lewis Miller captures the façade of York, Pa.’s, Washington Hall, built in 1849. The building, sometimes referred to as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows or IOOF hall, housed overflow prisoners after the Battle of Gettysburg. Chief Surgeon Henry Palmer had threatened to resign, rather than treat Rebel wounded, according to letter writer Cassandra Small. The hospital and its satellites were military posts, so Washington Hall can be viewed as a prisoner of war camp site.

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Penn Park’s Penn-Coates Memorial better known as the York, Pa., park’s ‘caretaker’s home’

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Jim McClure

This blocky building in York, Pennsylvania’s, Penn Park is weather beaten or, well, just looks beaten up today. But when The Penn-Coates Memorial appeared on the cover of its dedication brochure on Sept. 25, 1926, it was a welcome sight.

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Distelfink? So now we all know the meaning of the strange Pennsylvania Dutch name

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Jim McClure

Distelfink Drive-in Restaurant was known as Sandoe’s Distelfink Drive-In on this postcard from York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News’ files. This picture from the undated postcard shows three cars from the early 1960s and one from the late 1950s. All this raises the question. What is a Distelfink?

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Gettysburg 150th: Casper Glattfelder’s family and the Civil War

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Jim McClure

This year’s reunion of the Casper Glattfelter Association of America focuses on the Glatfelders in the Civil War in connection with Gettysburg 150th.

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York-area Remembrance Day marks early observance of Gettysburg 150: Linked in to history, 4/30/13

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare covers Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Remembrance Day, the Casper Glattfelter family, Tom Wolf’s run for Pennsylvania governor and Loganville Fire Chief Rodney Miller’s death in the line of duty.

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What is more York County than Yorkco, now Johnson Controls? Part II

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers the Halpin firefighting family, relics from the Battle of Wrightsville relics, Johnson Controls’ new York County home and Strasburg Railroad’s new roundhouse

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York County’s British POW Camp Security was not that secure, drawing shows

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Jim McClure

This scene of Springettsbury Township’s Camp Security is one of several drawn by British prisoner Roger Lamb incarcerated at this American Revolution POW camp. It will go on display at a public fundraising event to purchase land where the camp sat in 1781 to 1783. York, County, Pa.’s, Camp Security is the last remaining undeveloped POW camp from the American Revolution.

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What would York County be without its wonderful old farmhouses and barns?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Jim McClure

Strickler family members and York County, Pa., preservationists are concerned about the future of this old farmhouse near the York County Prison in Springettsbury Township. York County Commissioners say the house will remain standing.

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Signed, ‘Anne B. Tempera (but an Anstine at heart and DNA)’: Linked in to York County history, 3/24/13

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare covers the widespread Anstine family, the county’s most famous ficus tree, more Gettysburg150 and the popular hobby of raising racing pigeons.

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From petroglyphs to bald eagles, Dan Meckley covers ‘Incomparable York County’

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Jim McClure

York, Pa.’s, Daniel G. Meckley III has compiled several volumes of family histories combined with York County histories. The 90-year-old former CEO has published another volume in that series, ‘York, The Comparable York County, PA,’ and it covers an array of county topics.

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