York Town Square

…than any other person. There’s the Bamberg, S.C., born/World War II vet/retired Penn State administrator standing in the rain on a Saturday morning. Only a few turned out for this…

…Start at the beginning, in Bamberg, S.C., and work to the present day. I wrote on a sheet of paper what I knew of his story: Born in the Bamberg….

…Jews and blacks under oppression and brings in Bamberg, S.C., as a location. Bamberg was the home of many black families who came to York to work in factories in…

…also served as a pastor. Background posts: The Cassimatises, The Yeagleys and The Grumbachers. Many prominent black families today came here in the 1920s from Bamberg, S.C. – the Bambergers….

…his uncles, Ernest and John Moore; and Eliza Moore, mother of George, Ernest and John, are all buried in North York’s Lebanon Cemetery. The family has roots in Bamberg, S.C….

…educator James Smallwood. Smallwood and Aquilla Howard schools were erected in the early 1930s to educate black families, such as the Grimeses, who came to York for work from Bamberg,…

…said. “Be a Marine, go to college and be a police officer. I accomplished all three.” Chatman, whose family was one of many to migrate to York from Bamberg County,…

…Voni Grimes’ family moved to York from Bamberg, S.C., when he was a youngster. After several years, his father moved away. Voni worked several jobs to aid his mother and…

…this man who has become legendary in the York County community, a community that has been home since he came here from Bamberg, S.C., as a youngster. Part comes from…

…circa 1925, will reunite at Martin Luther King Park. Walter Kirkland moved to York from Bamberg, S.C., the ancestral home for many in York County’s black community today. “My grandfather’s…