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Mining a rich vein of southwestern York County’s religious history – Part I
The United Brethren Church built two-story cabins when it opened the Heidelberg Township (Pa.) campground in 1896 for churchgoers to stay overnight or weekly. Penn Grove Campground later operated as...
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Part II: Using York County history to create community embodies a modern trend
This is the rear of the former Hake distillery property near Emigsville, site of today’s Preserving York Fundraising Picnic. Here’s what I wrote about the picnic in the York Sunday News: “When people...
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Colonial Valley sale offers chance to get into 1780s house and own stone mill
Linked in/Neat stuff: Anthony D. Frederick’s ‘Historical Trails of Eastern Pennsylvania’ Heidelberg Township’s Colonial Valley is best known as the home of the Haunted Mill Scream Park. But history...
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6 photos explore milling and millers in York County’s Menges Mills
Heidelberg Township’s Colonial Valley Mill is up for sale on Saturday. Fortna Auctioneers is handling the sale and has details on its website. And this York Daily Record story fleshes out details of...
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When Jefferson Borough’s square was all grass and its roads unpaved
Linked in/Neat stuff: Career timelines for famous York countians This is Jefferson’s square, with unpaved roads and a rounded traffic pattern, in a photo dated circa 1876, according to the ‘Codorus...
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Everywhere you look in York County, Pa., you see a one-room school
Linked in/Neat stuff: Thanksgiving Quiz/Deltiologists at work This is a familiar former one-room school, sitting for decades along the York Road in Heidelberg Township. This has the look of a former...
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York County’s Penn Grove Camp: ‘Things were pretty primitive by today’s...
Thousand of worshippers have heard sermons in this outdoor pavilion, the tabernacle, at Penn Grove Campground in southwestern York County. The camp meeting was a rite of summer for thousands of York...
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Remembering Agnes: ‘Spring Grove’s Worst Flood’
This is the cover of a booklet published by Walt Geiger and Dave Leonard to show the impact of Tropical Storm Agnes on the Spring Grove, Pa., area. ‘Codorus Creek crests 96 inches deeps at mill dam,...
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Cam catches Codorus State Park eagle laying an egg
Linked in/Neat stuff: Broom making in Continental Square/Rail buffs at the Yorktowne Baby, it’s cold up there. One hundred feet up, that is. Well, not a baby, an eaglet, yet. But an egg, layed by an...
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