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Growing off-peak trolley ridership in York County: Build a park

These 160 steps from the lower level of Highland Park to the upper part were called “Fat Man’s Misery.” The park operated in the vicinity of Dogtown, on the north side of the Codorus Creek, south of...

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York County, Pa., has a lot of deserted places once in spotlight

Linked in/Neat stuff: Harleys on display/White Rose Amusement Park These piers are all that remain of a trolley bridge near Green Valley Pool in West Manchester Township, Pa. The far-ranging trolley...

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Rosie the Riveter toiled in the Civil War, too

Linked in/Neat stuff: Ordering home through Sears/Bird’s eye view of Philly Women living in the Civil War era are getting their due in the popular re-enactments in Gettysburg and elsewhere in these 150...

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7 more history quizzes to test your York smarts

Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. It’s interesting how quickly we forget those who have built this community. I regularly put up photographs of these achievers on YDR’s Facebook page. Sometimes,...

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Part II: Historic Brookside Park carousel building v. powderpost beetles: The...

‘A Century of Reflections,’ tells about the first 100 years of Dover Township, Pa.’s, Brookside Park. The park has been in the news recently because its marquee building, a carousel house, has been...

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Dover Township’s historic Brookside Park carousel building v. powderpost...

A carousel turned for years in this building at Brookside Park in Dover Township, Pa. In recent decades, it has sat empty, available for rentals and storage. But it will soon be demolished because of...

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York County, Pa., buildings and sites engage people: ‘This Place Matters,’...

Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. Nothing gets more engagement – likes, comments and shares – on York, Pa., Daily Record’s Facebook page than History Mysteries about places and buildings. Just an...

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Dover Township’s Brookside Park last remaining York-area trolley park. But...

Mount Wolf/Manchester-area residents enjoy an old photograph of Cold Springs Park taken in the days when the old trolley park operated in that area of York County in the 1920s. Cold Springs was one of...

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