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Welcome to York Town Square, 8 years of daily posts about journalism and history, topics that can easily become plodding and self important. My goal is to keep this blog fun and accessible. And I try to say something in each post. I welcome your comments and respond to every one you write. Please contact me at jem@ydr.com.
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What is more York County than Yorkco, now Johnson Controls? Part II
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
Posted in Archives, all posts, Civil War, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Genealogy/research, Linked in/neat stuff, Longtime York families, Made in York, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, People, Uncategorized, War, Women's history, Yorkco
Tagged Borg-Warner, Greg Halpin, Halpin family, Johnson Controls, Strasburg Railroad Museum, Wrightsville, Yorkco
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Delta-Peach Bottom slate splitter (say that fast 3 times) coming to Stewartsown
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.
Posted in American Revolution, Archives, all posts, Books & reading, Delta Welsh quarryman, Events, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local landmarks, Mail bag, Small-town life, War
Tagged Camp Security, Delta, Delta-Peach Bottom, Hoke farmhouse, Hoke House, Peach Bottom, slate, Spring Grove, Welsh
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Damon’s Grill/Banana Max building leveled; WellSpan coming in: Linked in to York County history, 4/15/13
Yorktownsquare.com covers memories of York City Market and Food Fair, Betty Marshall’s memorial service and WellSpan’s new medical office building in Northwest York.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, History video channel, Linked in/neat stuff, Local landmarks, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories
Tagged Betty Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall, Food Fair, Historic York Inc., WellSpan, York City Business and Industrial Park, York City Market
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How one photograph teaches lesson about change in York County, Part II – Linked in to York County history, 4/12/13
Yorktownsquare.com covers the old Lincoln Highway Garage, updates Steam into History’s excursion train and provides fate of the forgotten ficus tree of York County, Pennsylvania.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Explanations/controversy, Linked in/neat stuff, Local landmarks, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, Uncategorized, Wheels of York
Tagged Abbottstown, airports, Bedford Springs Hotel, Lincoln Highway Garage, Lynn Haines, Steam into History, York College of Pennsylvania
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Working on Steam into History’s railroad – Linked in to York County history, 4/11/13
Yorktownsquare.com covers Roundtown’s one-room school, the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War, YDR/WGAL’s town meeting and working on Steam into History’s railroad
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Tagged Blake Stough, Center Square School, Hanover Junction, Manchester Township, New Freedom, Roundtown, Steam into History, Vietnam War
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Civil War comes to Hellam, Wrightsville, Lower Windsor – Linked in to York County history, 4/10/13
‘Civil War comes to: Hellam, Wrightsville, Lower Windsor ‘ , a coloring book, provides youngsters with an opportunity to learn about the War Between the States
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Tagged Betsy Shaw, Cannonball Charlie, Civil War coloring book, Glen Rock, Hellam Township, Lower Windsor, Sears, Shearer and Lake map, Shearer and Lake map of 1860, Wrightsville, York Revs
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North Codorus Township’s Diehl’s one-room school, aka ‘Corn-Cob College,’ remembered
Diehl’s one-room school, located in North Codorus Township, York County, was one of 300 such schools that representated a way of life for generations. John ‘Otts’ Hufnagel of the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society, sent this image along with a narrative of one-room school life by another local student of history, the late Roger E. Shaffer. One-room schools continue to fascinate folks, so yorktownsquare.com profiles them in an occasional series.
Posted in Archives, all posts, For photo fans, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Longtime York families, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, School days, The Pennsylvania Dutch, Uncategorized
Tagged Diehl's School, Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society, John 'Otts' Huffnagel, North Codorus Township, one-room schools, Roger Shaffer
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Hope the reviewing stand beside this York, Pa. church was well built: Linked in to history, 4/2/13
Yorktownsquare.com covers Fitzkee’s Candies, the whereabouts of Potato Town, York County’s 150th birthday in 1899 and the work of architect Benjamin Latrobe
Posted in Archives, all posts, Events, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, School days, Small-town life, Uncategorized, Unsung/obscure sites, YorkEats: Hogmaw & such
Tagged Benjamin Latrobe, Fitzkee's Candies, Potato Town, Stoverstown, Trinity United Church of Christ, Wolgang's Candy, York County's 150th anniversary, Zion German Reformed Church, Zion United Church of Christ
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In search of Potato Town, York County, Pa.
Potato Town, York County, Pa.? This structure, an old school house, was all that was left of the gathering of about a half dozen houses in North Codorus Township when Armand Glatfelter was writing his histories of that township.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Books & reading, Explanations/controversy, Farms & fields, For photo fans, Local landmarks, Longtime York families, Mail bag, Nostalgia & memories, People, School days, Small-town life, Uncategorized, Unsung/obscure sites, YorkEats: Hogmaw & such
Tagged 'The Flowering of the Codorus Palatinate, Armand Glatfelter, Christian Lau, Codorus Creek, Codorus Valley Chronicles, Codorus Valley Historical Society, Indian Rock Dam, Potato Town, Ronald Dise
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