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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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Preservation Pennsylvania and Kreutz Creek Valley Preservation Society...
The campaign to save the historic Mifflin House, the extremely significant site in Hellam Township at the edge of Wrightsville, is moving on, but help is needed from the public. To bring you up to...
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York doctor served under Czar, saw the Amber Room
Henry L. Smyser (courtesy York County History Center) There has recently been some discussion on Retro York on Facebook about the Historic York Inn (also known as the Smyser-Bair House Bed and...
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More on the Mifflin House–Rally next week
Preservation Pennsylvania, in cooperation with Kreutz Creek Valley Preservation Society; Historic Wrightsville, Inc. and others, has announced a public rally for the threatened historic Mifflin House...
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Subject of a well-known painting has York County roots
Thomas Sully ( 1783 – 1872), Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely, 1818.Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington Eliza E. Ridgely was a beautiful young woman born into a prosperous Baltimore family. The...
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Views from the Mifflin House in the 1890s
The historic stone home in Hellam Township which we know as the Mifflin House was occupied from about 1800 until 1856 by the Mifflins: Revolutionary War patriot Jonathan Mifflin, his wife Susanna...
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York County Union and Confederate ties to Cold Harbor
Even if you are not a die-hard fan of Civil War history, you might have heard of the Battle of Cold Harbor, fought in Hanover County, Virginia, not far northeast of Richmond. The conflict, fought June...
View ArticlePhineas Davis was one of many York County inventors
York County seems to have had more than its share of inventors and innovators over the years. Quite a few of these ideas received patents from the U.S. Patent Office. I have written before about some...
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More York countians in the center of history-changing events
York County people were the players in an important landmark Supreme Court case, the decision of which is said to have hastened the U.S. Civil War. Hopefully we are familiar with Margaret Morgan and...
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York countians observed both presidential impeachment trials
We hear the word “impeachment” bandied about; do we really know what the word means and how the process works? I am no expert by far, but I did learn a lot while researching my recent York Sunday...
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