The next episode of Hometown History's Season 3 will focus on York County's agricultural past.
Rhoda Hawkins is one of many people remembered as important in the lives of Codorus Street residents. She operated a shop on Codorus Street.
William Shelton, a WWII veteran, was interred in York's City Cemetery because he could not afford a proper burial. He was moved to Indiantown Gap in 1985 with full military honors.
P.S. Weaver, a Hanover photographer, captured this scene of the exhumation of the bodies of Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Hanover. This scene comes from the German Reformed Church's cemetery. The worker in the vest is presumed to be freedman Basil Biggs, a noted Adams County veterinarian.
From left, Bobby Simpson. Ray Crenshaw and Dan Elby - three builders of Crispus Attucks Community Center, a York organization that is in the "character-building" business.
See a community need? Consider doing it yourself as Tom Davidson is doing in claiming the iconic Modernaire Motel sign for display in York County Agricultural and Industrial Museum in York.
When Margaret Williams died - an infant from a poor family - no one was there at York's potter's field to dig her grave. A dispute erupted between the undertaker and the gravedigger.
Florence Gipe made a mark locally, moved to Maryland where she helped build nursing education nationally and returned to her home county to continue her contributions.
After a series of arsons by York's Black population reportedly in protest of a sentence of a Black woman, local authorities place restrictions on the travel of York's Black population. The document shows how they communicated those restrictions.
The Civil War came to York County, evoking wrenching decisions. Moments to stand or cave. Wrightsville was home to at least 3 heroic moments.