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How a bird saw prime York County farmland in 1970: Linked in with neat...
For years, The Gazette and Daily produced annual calendars with interesting photographs from around York County, Pa. This aerial scene from the calendar’s November 1970 entry shows a photograph...
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How a bird saw the York Mall/York County Shopping Center in 1970
This J. David Allen photograph appearing in a 1970 Gazette and Daily calendar looks west to the point where Market Street (Old Lincoln Highway, Route 462), intersects with Interstate 83. That’s the...
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How a bird saw the York Mall/York County Shopping Center in 1971
This is the view of the York Mall/York County Shopping Center area of Springettsbury Township in 1971, courtesy of York County, Pa., resident Stephen H. Smith. Stephen helps us understands what’s where...
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Camp David not far from York County border – Linked in with neat York County...
More stuff below: Menges Mills Market/Famous rock groups/Pink tractors Scores of southwestern York County residents were looking to the skies Friday evenings as fighter jets scrambled after two planes...
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Besser’s, always open on the Susquehanna Trail, served as welcome stop for...
Bob Ketenheim’s ‘Around Glen Rock‘ includes this photo of an icon of the old Susquehanna Trail, Besser’s Service Station and 15 tourist cabins. The trail was then Route 111. Besser’s stood 11 miles...
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Fill ‘er up at Naugle’s in Springetts and receive a free plane ride: Linked...
Neat stuff, below: Red Lion’s Red Zone/Stewartstown Railroad/Brookside Park The Stony Brook area of Springettsbury Township was home to one of the earliest airstrips in York County, according to John...
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Over the years, Warner’s Dairy Complex has changed a bit: Linked in with neat...
The transformation of Warner’s Dairy Complex, complete with airport, into Lion’s Pride Restaurant and Dairyland Square Shopping Center and associated buildings is just plain interesting. This image,...
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Who can ID this mystery school in southeastern York County?: Linked in with...
More neat stuff below: J. Henry Denig/Central York from the air/Pinchot Roads This one-room school photo comes from somewhere in the Hopewell townships. Doug Winemiller of the Stewartstown Historical...
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After the old Elm Beach swimming hole came Meadowbrook: Linked in to York...
Other stuff below: Civil War Road Show/Stewartstown Railroad photo/Lincoln statue The old Meadowbrook swimming pool now provides beauty to wonderful private grounds near Saginaw, courtesy of this view...
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Battle of Wrightsville – Rare photograph of the battlefield, Part 2: Linked...
More stuff below: Steve Stetler/Stewartstown Railroad/Fall foliage Scott Mingus of York took a rare photograph of Wrightsville in 1930 and turned it into a history lesson about the Civil War. See the...
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Did you know Farquhar Estates is a section of Violet Hill? Linked in with...
This 1937 aerial photograph, courtesy of Stephen H. Smith’s YorksPast blog, shows A.B. Farquhar’s Edgecombe estate (No. 1) in 1937. It was a part of three posts on the Spring Garden Township hamlet of...
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York countians will look up some day and TMI’s cooling towers will be down
Steam from TMI Unit 1′s cooling tower is seen in this York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News file photo. That scene has remained unchanged since the partial meltdown of Unit 2′s reactor in 1979. In 40...
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York County’s Maize Quest unveils scary but pettable farm critters
Neat stuff/Linked in: Friedensall’s renovations/Civil War photos Hugh McPherson owns Maize Quest in southeastern York County, Pa., and that gives him standing to mount ‘tire-saurus’ This scary ‘ride’...
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A study of contrasts in Bair Station: Defense industry sits in peace with...
Neat stuff/Linked in: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s medal/G’burg 150th maize Bair-based BAE, seen from the air in this file photograph, has been in York County, Pa., since 1948 and at this West...
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How do you ‘demall’ a mall? Look at York County’s Delco Market Place
Neat stuff/Linked in: Walk around the Rock/Ettline property This 1990s aerial photo from York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News files shows the Delco Centre, right center, an enclosed mall, before it...
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Living historian to recreate Abe Lincoln’s trip to Gettysburg via Hanover...
Linked in/Neat stuff: Mailman’s/Tossing pumpkins Civil War fans have another major Gettysburg 150 moment coming on Nov. 19 – the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln stayed in...
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York County history mystery intersection: It’s one to avoid, wherever it is
Linked in/Neat stuff: Jeff Koons/Foust distillery/Kaltreider-Benfer Library This York County intersection is one to detour. In fact, many motorists do so, but it’s still jammed most times. Saturday...
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Who says things don’t change in York, Pa.?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Gettysburg protest/Congested Longstown There’s a lot going on in this York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News file photo of the old Stone Container/Smurfit Stone site. York College of...
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Ironic YDR headline as Tropical Storm Agnes raged: ‘Susquehanna...
As the rains from the Storm of October 2013 fell earlier this month, inevitable comparisons came with those of Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972. Well, Agnes offered up 15-plus inches a short span. The...
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York College of Pennsylvania scholar seeks oral histories about the York race...
This aerial view from the camera of a York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News photographer shows where railroad tracks cross Newberry Street in York. Lillie Belle Allen, visiting York, was slain when the...
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