York photo captured memorable moment of human contact: ‘An emotional life...
Linked in/Neat stuff: View from Highpoint/Cameron Mitchell remembered York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Paul Kuehnel captured this touching scene at a York Ecumenical Choral Society...
View ArticleShrewsbury: Home to well-known people, but transportation has defined the...
This historical marker observes one of Shrewsbury, Pa,’s luminaries – Amanda Berry Smith. Another well-known 20th-century figure, humanitarian Spurgeon Keeny, came from this southern York County...
View ArticleHistory mystery scene: Can you ID this old York County, Pa., mill?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Kennard of Kennard-Dale?/Sycamores in Fayfield? Former York artist Cliff Satterthwaite documented this York County, Pa., mill scene via watercolor in the late 1960 or early 1970s....
View ArticleVersatile Dempwolfs designed York, Pa., mansions – and carriage houses
Linked in/Neat stuff: Dr. Charles Drawbaugh feted/History mystery rocks The work of Dianne Bowders appears again on YorkTownSquare. This one captures a familiar Dempwolf design in York, Pa. But not a...
View ArticleCameron Mitchell applause growing in York County: ‘Honestly, it seems like...
Linked in/Neat stuff: Old Hanover Theatre unchanged/Old York Prison pictured Grass-roots efforts to recognize York County native son Cameron Mitchell are gaining momentum in southern York County, where...
View ArticleIn Red Lion, Pa.: Working on the Ma & Pa Railroad
Linked in/Neat stuff: Civil War conscientious objectors/Cameron Mitchell Day Jan Barnhart of the Red Lion Area Historical Society emailed in an update about Ma & Pa Railroad station renovations in...
View ArticleA guide to York countians who made it big
YorkTownSquare.com is seeking to ensure that national celebrities with York, Pa., ties today make it into the history books 100 years from now. So we keep track of these celebs, who seem to be coming...
View ArticleWho was Grace E. Loucks of West York school fame?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Budmobile for sale/Fundraising for Cameron Mitchell scholarship Now this is the way a school should look. Multistory and made of red brick. Only Loucks is now a former school –...
View Article6 views of New Freedom, Pa., a pleasant town of travelers, past and present
Until the last part of the 20th century, New Freedom was a relatively self-contained railroad town. As did several York County towns, it had its own theater, now Bonkey’s Ice Cream. So it remains a...
View ArticleThe Susquehanna’s riverbed: What can you do with a face like that?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Cameron Mitchell film shown as fundraiser/A week of historic anniversaries The York, Pa., Daily Record’s Jason Plotkin’s photos from above the Norman Wood Bridge are telling for...
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