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Welcome to York Town Square, 9 years of daily posts about history/journalism, 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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Market & Beaver in York, Pa.: Intersection is changing from the day Hillary Clinton took stage there
Royal Square developers are eyeing the longtime home of the Police Heritage Museum on York, Pa.’s, West Market Street. The museum incorporated 20 years ago and moved into the building (the low building, second from right) between Weinbrom Jewelers and the old Woolworth’s store after that. Royal Square is looking at the Police Museum’s 54 W. Market St. building for retail space. Right now, Police Museum officials aren’t commenting about what this means to the place that has artifacts going back to the 1700s.
Posted in All politics is local, Antiquing & artifacts, Archives, all posts, Cops & courts, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Genealogy/research, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, York City neighborhoods
Tagged arts district, Hillary Clinton, Holy Hound, Market District, Mount Wolf - The Town, Police Heritage Museum, Roosevelt TV, Royal Square, South George Street, Weinbrom's, West Market Street, Woolworth's
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A big week for York County, Pa., sports: Ron Wolf, Bruce Arians and John Kuhn score national honors
New Freedom, Pa.’s Ron Wolf is seen with new Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman in 2000. Wolf has gained a spot in the NFL Hall of Fame, the second person with York County roots to do so. York High’s Chris Doleman was voted in last year.
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Tagged Bruce Arians, Dover High School, John Kuhn, Mount Wolf - The Town, New Freedom, Ron Wolf, Tom Wolf, York High
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These 10 stories, photographs tell about buildup to the Wolf Inauguration
This neat image came from a Tom Wolf Inauguration email. That’s the future governor at left. ‘While we would love Tom to show us his musical skills at the inaugural party on Tuesday,’ the newsletter said, ‘we’ll let him off … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitol, Eagle Fire Company, George Leader, Mount Wolf - The Town, Richard Saylor, Tom Wolf, Tom Wolf's Jeep, Wolf inauguration
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York County’s long meet up with Jeeps: From a World War II prototype to Tom Wolf’s Jeep
On the eve of the inauguration of Tom Wolf as governor of Pennsylvania, it’s an appropriate time to bring up a vehicle that helped him gain the driver’s seat of state governor. That would be Tom Wolf’s Jeep, popularized, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dillsburg Tavern, Jeep, Mount Wolf - The Town, New Oxford, Tom Wolf, Tom Wolf's Jeep, Wolf's Jeep
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Gov. Tom Wolf: Photographs, videos give colorful picture of historic election day
Kate Penn’s photograph was one of hundreds captured by York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News photographers on an Election Day in which Pennsylvania elected York County’s own Tom Wolf as governor. As many anticipated, York County, with a big GOP registration … Continue reading
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Tagged George Leader, Mount Wolf - The Town, Tom Wolf
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George Leader became Pa.’s first governor from York, Pa., 60 years ago
This is one of a series of photographs from York, Pa., Daily Record files showing moments surrounding George Leader’s swearing in as Pennsylvania’s governor. The longshot candidate was top votegetter 60 years ago – in the November 1954 election. The question today is whether another York countian, Tom Wolf, can score a similar victory. Like Leader, Wolf was relatively unknown before the election year. But smart marketing, among other things, moved him ahead of other Dems in the spring primary, and polls show him ahead of challenger and sitting governor Tom Corbett today, Election Day, 2014.
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Tagged George Leader, Lloyd Wood, Mount Wolf - The Town, Tom Corbett, Tom Wolf
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In search of understanding about growing and milling hemp in York County’s past
Les Stark, a marijuana activist in Pennsylvania, believes this photograph shows an old hemp mill. Mark Walters of The Evening Sun in Hanover is seeking more information on this mill, originally published in this YorkTownSquare spread about the Colonial Valley Mill in Menges Mills. The sellers of the Heidelberg Township mill, now under new ownership, believed this was part of the Colonial Valley operation
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Tagged Colonial Valley Mill, HeidelbergTownship, hemp, hemp mills, Menges Mills, Mount Wolf - The Town, Seven Gates of Hell, sleeping porches, Toad Road
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History doesn’t stink: Check out these photos of York County, Pa., outhouses
Linked in/Neat stuff: Bradnick kidnapping recalled/In the Roosevelt White House Mount Wolf’s Charlie Stambaugh has designed a regional plumbing business’s website, and to draw attention, he’s collecting photos of outhouses. The business’s pages are full of outhouses, many submitted from York … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Goodling, George Goodling, Indian Steps Museum, Knaub's Bakery, Mount Wolf - The Town, outhouses, Peggy Ann Bradnick, privies, Stewartstown Historical Society, The Roosevelts
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