Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This district encompasses 309 contributing buildings and includes notable examples of the Late Victorian and Classical Revival styles. Notable buildings include the Christ Lutheran Church (1812–1814), Odd Fellows Hall (1850), U.S. Post Office (1911), Strand and Capitol Theatre (1923–1925), Elks Home (1860s), Pullman Factory Building (c. 1900), Sylvia Newcombe Center (1892), Friends Meeting ...
Roughly bounded by Edgewood Avenue, the Windsor Township line, a Maryland and Pennsylvania line, Chestnut Road, Country Club Road, and the York Township line 39°53′55″N 76°36′35″W / 39.898611°N 76.609722°W / 39.898611; -76.609722 ( Red Lion Borough Historic
York's Golden Plough Tavern Commemorative stamp (1977) York in 1930 from the north. York was also known as Yorktown in the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. It was founded in 1741 by settlers from the Philadelphia region and named for the English city of the same name. By 1777, most of the area residents were of German or Scots-Irish descent. [7]
The Gen. Horatio Gates House and Golden Plough Tavern are two connecting historic buildings which are located in downtown York, York County, Pennsylvania.The buildings were restored between July 1961 and June 1964, [3] and are operated as a museum by the York County History Center.
Early Pennsylvania historical marker added in 1915 at Trimble's Ford. The Historical Markers Program was authorized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when it created Pennsylvania Historical Commission (PHC), the precursor of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), through the Act of the General Assembly No. 777, on July 25, 1913.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in York County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Smyser was born in York Borough, on 8 December 1825, to Eliza and Michael Smyser. He attended University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1847. [3] John Gibson, an American historian, stated in 1886 that Smyser was a representative of the first families of York County, Pennsylvania.