Dutch Club’s story reflects changing life in York, Pa.
Linked in/Neat stuff: Yorkbloggers win preservation award/Stately Biesecker Mill interests people The Dutch Club fire this week appears to have spelled the end of a York, Pa., landmark building. The...
View ArticleYork Rotary 100: These 10 photos provide snapshots of this venerable...
The Rotary Club has met regularly at the Yorktowne Hotel for much of its century-long history. But sometimes it takes field trips, literally. This outing to the Harold and Thelma Robertson farm – now...
View ArticleUrban legends about York College’s campus abound, and its archives help tell...
John Fisher’s Pennsylvania’s Coat of Arms is viewed as the most significant among many holdings in York College of Pennsylvania’s Archives and Special Collections. The archives, in the college’s...
View ArticleSears, Roebuck in York, Pa.: The retailer was an early adopter of the move to...
Linked in/Neat stuff: New use for Lafayette Club/Broad Street Market’s night hours Ah, yes, the old Sears building on West Market Street, York, Pa., as seen in this York County Heritage Trust photo....
View ArticleLassa fever was in York County, Pa., in 1969: First U.S. death recorded here
York County’s Delma Rivera-Lytle is seen with her aunt and uncle, Juan and Doris Román. Juan Román became the first U.S. victim of Lassa fever when he died visiting the Rivera in York County in 1969....
View ArticleRecognizing Glen Rock’s Neuhaus brothers: Sellers of everything from field...
Linked in/Neat stuff: John Schmidt’s memoirs/WW I in Muddy Creek Forks That’s the Arthur Hufnagel Public Library in Glen Rock, right, before it became known as that. In its day, this pair of buildings,...
View Article65 years in York, Pa.: Three generations of Hayman photographers have rolled...
Pros at Hayman Studio mug for the camera at the North York commercial photographer’s quarter-century mark in the late 1970s. The third-generation firm of photographers is celebrating its 65th...
View ArticleAward-winning Manchester Township Historical Property Review: ‘This stately...
This is the 1800s home of Dr. Adam Eisenhart, now part of the Stillmeadow Church of the Nazarene’s campus in Manchester Township, Pa. It’s among scores of properties on the Manchester Township...
View ArticleThe Avenues stand at the center of York County’s universe
(Editor’s note: These brief items are representative of topics discussed in the Retro York Facebook Group, facebook.com/groups/retroyork.) With the recent news that UPMC Memorial Hospital will open...
View ArticleThe story of historically black churches in York County begins with 17 members
In 1811, seventeen black citizens of York gathered in their homes for religious worship, forming the town’s earliest known black church. Their first church building was a one-room structure on North...
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