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Read all about The Howling Hellians of Dogtown School: Linked in with neat...
Former residents of Dogtown shared their memories in a recent Weekly Record story on that West York/West Manchester Township area in and around the old Highland Park. But one story not captured there...
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How Downtown Jacobus changed in the 1980s: Linked in with neat York County...
Neat stuff, below: ‘Enlisting Time’ exhibit/Dover Township’s Admire/West York’s champs Some folks remember when Pines Pharmacy was located in this old building in Jacobus. By old, this building, as...
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Springettsbury Fire Hall not historic, but memorable: Linked in to history,...
Watergate anniversary/Old theaters under siege/Rusk Report Springettsbury Township’s proposed new fire hall is shown in this architectural rendering. The current hall – not historic with a 1958...
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‘Loop the Loop’ at the York Fair and other York County post card views
B. Derek Shaw, a roller coaster aficionado, sent along this postcard of the ‘Loop the Loop’ from York, Pa., Fair in 1904. Derek, also a postcard fan, noted that this is a ‘real photo card.’ It tells a...
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West York ritualistic suicide forgotten by many, but investigators remember
Mary Breighner discusses a body found in a Peach Bottom quarry in 2004 with her boss, Coroner Barry Bloss. In 2008, Breighner said she retiring. Background posts: York’s Wonder Women: The stories of...
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Mose’s Gulf Service in West York: ‘They will still wash your windows, pump...
Mose’s Gulf Service Station in West Manchester Township, seen in this 2004 York (Pa.) Daily Record/Sunday News photo, recently celebrated its 50 anniversary. Mose’s is a rarity in the York area, an...
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York County, Pa., lacks brainpower, researchers say. But here’s the rest of...
Pennsylvania Furniture, the West York-based fine furniture manufacturer operated for about 70 years after its founding in the 1890s. By 1949, the York County, Pa., company had manufactured more than...
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From West York maker of silk garments to storage of bath tubs to apartments...
Two entrepreneurs are turning the former Eugene David Silk Mill, 1410 Monroe St., in West York into luxury apartments. This project is among several rehabs of century-old red brick buildings into...
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West York, Pa., family learns that memory of downed World War II airman is...
The name of Tech. Sgt. Kenneth E. Slenker of West York, Pa., appears on ‘The Wall of the missing’ at Margraten American War Cemetery in the Netherlands. The existence of this memorial to the downed...
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Scenic Hanover Junction: ‘Awesome horse and rider sculpture … on the Rail Trail’
Linked in/Neat stuff: Interest in Pennsylvania Furniture/Discovering Lititz Dover’s Teanna Byerts grabbed this scene along the York County Heritage Rail Trail in Hanover Junction. She writes this about...
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