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The Civil War came to York County, evoking wrenching decisions. Moments to stand or cave. Wrightsville was home to at least 3 heroic moments.

Continue ReadingWrightsville: One town, Three Civil War heroes

Trained as a teacher, York's Mary Cadwell Fisher became a skilled nurse amid immense medical needs in the Civil War.

Continue ReadingYork’s Ladies Aid Society: Formed to take on crisis in war

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  • Tragedy at Codorus Creek: Man drowns in sewage in Depression-era York County
  • Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm: Stories of the wounded and dying
  • York-born Arthur Evans, gay rights advocate, enjoyed banquet of life
  • York stands alone in riding through Confederate lines to surrender in Civil War
  • In York, rebels demand mounds of dollars, food, supplies. Who paid? Who didn’t?
  • Thomas Jefferson slept here: Hanover’s Sign of the Horse Tavern
  • A foul canal’s restoration: Codorus Greenway designed to turn creek into park
  • When Latinos came to York County: They brought their own cooks
  • York’s Continental Square: Makeover to invite folks to come there and stay a while
  • Renowned author Rita Mae Brown remembers York County in her writings and visits
  • Hometown History, Season 4: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo Backstory
  • Slavery happened in York County, too
  • How one meeting cut through years of York County police dissension
  • Fighting drought in York County: Hire a rainmaker or dig a lake
  • Creatives & recreationists: Galleries & outdoors replacing old brick factories
  • Restorations line up with anniversaries: York County’s historical & cultural renaissance
  • Beleaguered Congress in York: ‘I will not quit my post’
  • York County’s Surrender House: A quiet farmhouse in the village of Farmers
  • A walk to wonder: Taking in Penn Street’s challenges and promise
  • Civil War religious objectors faced a ‘crisis of conscience’
  • Their segregated sanctuary prospered – and then disappeared
  • Courthouses indicate what York County likes
  • Tough work for mother: Raising 12 kids on a York County farm
  • Delta & its region: Slate roofs & slate foundations
  • Native Lands: Short peaceful path crosses longtime place of conflict
  • When teacher James L. Smallwood came to York County
  • Hometown History, Season 3: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo Backstory
  • Montez Parker: Seeks equality as new normal in hometown of York
  • WWII vet moved from York City Cemetery to Indiantown Gap
  • Gettysburg rail station hosted Lincoln’s coming and going
  • Black & Latino history studies: Logjam breaks in York County
  • DIY work in old York cemeteries, unsung memorials and weedy lots
  • Feuding over a baby’s death: When people can’t afford a gravedigger
  • Florence Gipe viewed as ‘brilliant and strict with new ideas’
  • York in 1786: A riot to reclaim Jacob Bixler’s cow
  • Wrightsville: One town, Three Civil War heroes
  • York’s Ladies Aid Society: Formed to take on crisis in war
  • Graveyard at York’s First Presbyterian: ‘When the very stones cry out’
  • St. Paul (Lebanon) Lutheran Church: Faith and resiliency for 200+ years
  • Hanover & York: A new start after centuries of disunion?
  • Russian heritage infused in Crostwater Distillery
  • Dr. Robert L. Ellis delivers York County’s first blood transfusions
  • Unsung York County Civil War sites to visit
  • Codorus Creek: Millers rush to court to stake liquid gold claims
  • Hometown History, Season 2: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo backstory
  • Horn Farm: This old York County place fights adversity
  • Daisy Myers: ‘Sticks ‘n Stones … but words will never harm you’
  • York College professor fishes for toxins
  • York County one-room schools: When students drank water from the same ladle
  • The influential artwork of Lorann Jacobs
  • Preserving, documenting, demolishing York County
  • Mashing the Johnny Appleseed Legend
  • Drumming: It used to be prohibited for Native Americans, now it’s celebrated
  • Goodridge House: Early photography, Underground Railroad intersect here
  • Where York’s Philadelphia & Newberry streets meet
  • Hometown History, Season 1: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo backstory
  • “Access to Justice”: The mantra of liberty for the Golden Venture
  • Continental Square: It’s late June so prepare for a big moment
  • York College: First a fence and then a hand across it
  • YDR in York County: Unsung owner saved newspaper
  • East Market parking garage: It has a York story to tell
  • Sears in York County, Pa: How it influenced a community
  • A soldier’s escape: Healing PTSD in nature
  • Highpoint: Big challenges demand bold actions
  • Elmwood Mansion: Witnessing constant change
  • Urban farming: Thriving agriculture in the city
  • Rural Newberry Township: Freedom seeker shot at Underground Railroad station
  • For 25 years, NENA’s grassroots work has strengthened York’s neighborhoods
  • Parkway Homes: Despite hardships, generations of leaders have emerged
  • Bond building: When badly needed, York shone here
  • 95 acres in Dover: Land ethics in play on this farm
  • Bermudian Valley: Seeking peace in the York County’s cloister, Part II
  • The Gazette and Daily: Under siege in the 1960s, York newspaper starts from square one
  • York County’s cloister: Seeking peace in the Bermudian Valley
  • Crispus Attucks Community Center: A ‘character building’ organization
  • A hidden space: The potter’s field in North York
  • Significant York landmarks: Victim to wrecking ball in 1950s-1970s
  • Faith Presbyterian Church: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urged merger
  • Carlisle Livestock Auction: A farming chapter ends
  • Gettysburg’s Spangler Farm: Field hospital testifies to battle’s human cost
  • Quilting as a symbol of independence
  • Controversial York mayor’s East Princess Street business: Latino advocates now call it home
  • Dover Area School District: ID movement reached high water mark in York County
  • Farming by day, Underground Railroad by night
  • House with the garden wall: Landmark home of this leading woman among York women
  • The Green Book: Struggling to find a place to stay while on family vacation
  • South of Shrewsbury: Berry Underground Railroad house
  • York’s Centre Square Courthouse
  • Firefighters Memorial Garden
  • The Brownstone: Owner built community in York
  • A woman with one arm: How the Wallace sisters successfully ran their grist mill, despite a disability
  • Witnessing York: Introducing new digital site
  • Healing President Lincoln: The curious case of William Henry Johnson
  • Northwestern York County: Lynching, Civil War era
  • Penn Park: A place for new beginnings
  • 116 E. King St.: The Parliament at center of visits that probe York’s story
  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Quiet site for high court case
  • Hanover Square: Two nights of unrest
  • Lebanon Cemetery: North York’s historically black cemetery
  • Mount Pisgah Cemetery: Marker honors Susquehanna bridge defender

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