Category Archives: School days

North Codorus Township’s Diehl’s one-room school, aka ‘Corn-Cob College,’ remembered

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Jim McClure

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.

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Hope the reviewing stand beside this York, Pa. church was well built: Linked in to history, 4/2/13

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Jim McClure

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

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In search of Potato Town, York County, Pa.

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jim McClure

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.

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York County man’s first car? A 1956 turquoise Chevy ragtop: Linked in to York County history, 3/15/13

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers memories of reader’s first cars, farmers markets, sources about the York Race Riots and Gettysburg’s Historic Lutheran Seminary

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Amish, Mennonite faiths explored, explained in new Lancaster exhibit: Linked into history, 3/2/13

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com explores York County towns, what’s off Interstate 83′s exists, an exhibit opening on Lancaster County Amish and Mennonites and a recent black history fair.

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Look at the size of that Keystone Marker: Linked in to York County history, 2/24/13

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Jim McClure

York City is rehabbing a Keystone Marker, part of a effort in Pennsylvania to restore these often forgotten roadside signs posted between the world wars.

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Keystone Color Works building to be brushed up for artspace? Linked in to history, 1/31/13

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers a million dollar nickel, Artspace coming to downtown York buildings and efforts are under way to rehab the old one-room schoolhouse in Roundtown.