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Wright’s Ferry connected York and Lancaster counties for nearly two centuries
Ferry boat crossing from Columbia to Wrightsville just below the iron bridge. You may have read my recent York Sunday News column on the fifteen ferries that connected York County with Lancaster and...
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Confederate demands on York–food, clothing and money
This the second of a three part series of posts chronicling the June 30, 1863 York Gazette coverage of the occupation of York by Confederate troops 150 years ago. General Early was very specific about...
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Carrie Nation’s 1907 York County crusade
In 2006 York Daily Record columnist Jim Hubley wrote that the temperance crusader Carrie Nation was signed as top attraction at Hanover Fair in Sept 1902, speaking between horse races. She was also...
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Colonel Jonathan Mifflin, Revolutionary War Patriot and master of Hybla at...
Nineteenth century view of Hybla Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has done extensive research on the Mifflin family of Hellam Township. He has written, both in his Cannonball blog and in his recently...
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York County covered bridges had rules
We look at covered bridges, or memories of the now mostly extinct bridges, as picturesque remnants of the past. But they were not built to be charming. They were vital links in the transportation...
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More Susquehanna bridges proposed in 1933
As I mentioned in my recent York Sunday News column on Theodore Burr’s 1815 bridge at McCall’s Ferry, the lower part of York County did not have a lasting river bridge until the Norman Wood bridge was...
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Wrightsville’s rich history is commemorated by many plaques, another sought
Wrightsville railroad bridge For the past few years, Albert Rose, long-time volunteer at the York County History Center Library/Archives, has been documenting war memorials throughout York County. He...
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Other Revolutionary War patriots homes like Jonathan Mifflin’s have been saved
Hybla, home of Jonathan Mifflin at Wrightsville Jonathan Mifflin was also a prominent Revolutionary War patriot, even going contrary to his Quaker religion to become an officer and assistant...
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York County welcomes the Justice Bell
The Justice Bell is now at Valley Forge We are coming up on the 100th anniversary of national woman suffrage in 2020. Before the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment of the United States...
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Views from the Mifflin House in the 1890s
View from the Mifflin House of neighboring farm with river and Wrightsville in background The historic stone home in Hellam Township which we know as the Mifflin House was occupied from about 1800...
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York countians had a hand in developing steam powered transportation
Lewis Miller drawing of the shaping of the iron hull of the steamboat Codorus While doing some research on Phineas Davis and his York locomotive for an upcoming column, I realized I had never posted my...
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