Category Archives: Women’s history

Gettysburg 150th: The observance is gaining interest in York County, Pa. – Linked in with neat history stuff, May 20, 2012

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Jim McClure

Lona Full and her husband Art, of Stewartstown, dressed for a Civil War-era church service in nearby Cross Roads, Pa., in 2006. “Being the ham that I am, wore it today,” she told the York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News at the Cross Roads United Methodist Church, where hymns and preaching in the style of the 1860s greeted parishioners. The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will cause re-enactors, living historians and just people who want to dress in period garb to done their uniforms and dresses. The Stewartstown Historical Society, in thatr southeastern York County borough, plans a program on the Civil War on June 5.

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In York, Pa., and Boston, Mass., police and emergency services workers are truly people who matter

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Jim McClure

A memorial garden featuring the names of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty is to the right of the York County, Pa., emergency services building. The 911 center in Springettsbury Township is protected by a curved continuous concrete wall, between 18 and 24 inches wide.

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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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Rivera family, pioneering Hispanics, saw need and founded York, Pa., Spanish American Center

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jim McClure

Dr. Edwin A. and Delma Rivera arrived in York, Pa., in 1962, as a pioneering Hispanic physician family. The couple saw the need for services – interpreters, housing, employment – for Hispanics in York. The York Spanish American Center emerged to address those needs.

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First the catalog. Now Sears ends its portrait center. What’s next? Linked in to York County history, 4/9/13

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Jim McClure

Remember when Sears, Roebuck and Co. operated in the York County, Pa., Shopping Center? Now at the Galleria in the York area, Sears has discontinued its portrait center here and in its stores across the United States.

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Vic Wertz, York, Pa.’s, famous Major Leaguer, to be honored in Reading: Linked in to York County, Pa., history, 4/1/13

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Jim McClure

Vic Wertz was born in York, Pa., and spent his first 11 years here. He still has family here. And his name lives on, most famously as the Cleveland Indian who hit the massive long out that Willie Mays pulled down in the 1954 World Series. But his most spectacularly achievement was that he returned to a productive Major League Baseball career after contracting polio. His name is back in the news because of efforts to name a field after him at a Berks County youth sports facility.

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Betty Marshall, York mayor and citizen, zigged in a community that zagged

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Jim McClure

Pioneer and groundbreaker Elizabeth Marshall, York, Pa.’s, first elected female mayor, died this week. That’s “first elected” chief exec. Jesse M. Gross was appointed to fill out John L. Snyder’s mayorship several years before. Also of interest: Jane Alexander, Bev … Continue reading →

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Can you ID the two girls dwarfed by the piled snow? Linked in to York County history, 3/26/13

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Jim McClure

Auntie Anne/Central Market’s birthday/Famed Civil War latrine These unidentified girls probably never forgot this moment when the plowed and shoveled snow in York was almost twice their height in place. The location of this photograph, from York City’s 225th anniversary … Continue reading →

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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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Foustown: Glen Rock-area company town, now ghost town – Linked in to York County history, 3/18/13

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers early York County businesswoman Shinah Etting, Gettysburg 150 stories, lonely ghost town Foustown, and a sought-after Samurai sword.

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