Tag Archives: Penn Park

This granite bear stands primed for action: Where in York County, Pa., can you see this artwork?

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Jim McClure

Here’s this week’s History Mystery question: This is surely one of York County, Pa.’s most unusual tombstones. Where does this granite bear stand? But here’s a tougher one: Do you know its story? Answer. This question on the YDR’s Facebook … Continue reading →

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Gettysburg’s compelling annual Sacred Trust series has become a must-visit at the battlefield

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Jim McClure

Jennifer Murray speaks on ‘ “From These Honored Dead” ‘: Gettysburg and World War II’ at the Sacred Trust’s Talks and Book Signings that concludes today. (Check out today’s schedule). The three-day annual event features big-league Civil War experts speaking … Continue reading →

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York County enjoys its big anniversaries – and there’s a lot of history to enjoy

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Jim McClure

This mega York County, Pa., celebration came in 1927, the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Articles of Confederation. It looked back to the days when Continental Congress met in York. It included a pageant, seen here, and the posting of large paintings of patriots around York’s square.

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This York, Pa., building has housed a market and BizTown. But why was it built?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jim McClure

Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. In commenting on this YDR Facebook History Mystery post (click on comments icon to see), some people think this is the old Stetler Dodge building. Close – as in across the street – but … Continue reading →

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Penn Park field, York, Pa.’s, first known ballpark: Then & now.

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Jim McClure

Linked in/Neat stuff:  ‘Pennsylvania Barn Stories’/Stewartstown RR rolls again   Spring will eventually get here – and so will baseball. Which brings us to a then-and-now scene. This is York, Pa.’s, first known baseball stadium, Penn Park field. It spread out at … Continue reading →

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This photo surely shows York County at its best, Part III

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Jim McClure

Linked in/Neat stuff: Spring Grove Museum /White Rose Photo Engravers This postcard scene shows a rite of all around York County, Pa. – wagon rides through the countryside. This scene shows such a scenic trip at Brown’s Orchards Yellow Church … Continue reading →

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Foodstrucks have been rolling along York streets for decades

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Jim McClure

Linked in/Neat stuff: Dead Red Bats/Bury’s burgers in Springettsbury Long before Foodstruck invaded York County for two events, food trucks – or food cycles – patrolled the streets of York County, Pa. The Yorkco Ice driver sits on a Harley-Davidson … Continue reading →

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Picturing history, then & now: Soon-to-be-reopened Hannah Penn Middle School

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Jim McClure

Picturing History offers this before-and-after, then-and-now look at Hannah Penn Middle School. Some quick facts: This York, Pa., school, soon to be reopened with New Hope Academy Charter School shutting down, was not the first to bear the Hannah Penn name. The west end schoolgrounds also represent the site where Poorhouse Run goes underground as it crosses under the city to the Codorus Creek. Its grounds also were on or near the site of the old York Fairgrounds, site of a Union training camp early in the Civil War. But all this brings on the question: Who was Hannah Penn?

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How 2016 can serve as coming-together moment for York, Pa. If it would just come together.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Jim McClure

The Elk rockery stood tall in York, Pa.’s, Penn Park until about 25 years ago when vandalism spelled the end of this monument. The park, York’s oldest, will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2016.

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Of a potter’s field, mass exhumation and a Figian cannibal’s reburial

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Jim McClure

Before York High School could be built at the turn of the 20th century, a cemetery for the indigent – Potters Field – had to be moved. So that exhumation project became what was probably the biggest such removal on York County, Pa.’s, record.

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