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Pick up your ration book at the schoolhouse
Students at Glen Allen (Hake’s) one-room school, September 1947 Numerous former one-room schoolhouses still dot the countryside. Many have been converted to residences, some so modified that it is hard...
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Rural students and the Eight Grade Examination
Eight grade review books from the 1940s for Physiology [Health]; American History; Geography, Eastern Hemisphere; Geography, Western Hemisphere; Civics; Grammar and ScienceSome York County school...
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Another York County Lincoln assassination association
Over the years I have shared many posts showing local connections to President Lincoln and his assassination. They ranged from York native Edman Spangler, accused but not convicted of conspiracy in...
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Visit to Camp Security in 1905
I found this article from the July 21, 1905 York newspaper, probably the York Daily, in the Jere Carl scrapbooks at the York County History Center. Little articles about Camp Security pop up every now...
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More on Dr. Reed’s 1905 visit to Camp Security
My previous post shared a July 21, 1905 article from the York Daily about Dr. Reed of Lancaster coming to look for the camp where his grandfather guarded Revolutionary War prisoners. We know the site...
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York County children enjoyed seeing their work in the newspaper
For many years the Junior Dispatch page was published on Saturdays in the York Dispatch. Pupils of fourth through ninth grades could submit their writing and art through their teachers. Children could...
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Family history research can lead to interesting relatives
The Reno GangPhoto courtesy of Genealogy Trails History Group I am on a History Channel list that emails me a “This Day in History” tidbit every day. Today’s commemorates the first robbery of a moving...
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Freysville School alumni keep tradition alive.
Freysville School in its last days as a school, Spring 1952 There are still a fair number of people around who attended the rural one-room (sometimes two-room) schools that dotted York County until the...
View ArticleMigrant labor essential for decades of York County harvest
I started working on my April York Sunday News column, which you can read below, about two months ago. We were just starting to hear more about COVID-19 then. By the time it was finished and...
View ArticleFour York County women took a long road trip in 1938
Take a look at the recently created Trailblazers online exhibit on the York County History Center website. It tells the story, through photographs and transcribed diary entries, of the 1938 cross...
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