Stories

  • 20161221 -  How one man promoted his York County town to the world
  • 20161219 -  John “Otts” C. Hufnagel Obituary
  • 20161219 -  Glen Rock Hose & Ladder Co. hosts Christmas train display
  • 20161218 -  In Glen Rock, they've been working on the railroad for 20 yrs.
  • 20161022 -  Where to learn York County history
  • 20161013 -  Glen Rock woman weaves Victorian-style hair jewelry
  • 20160820 -  Welcome to Retro York, 1 stop for county history
  • 20160725 -  Photos: Around Glen Rock - a rich past & growing recreational future
  • 20160724 -  How Glen Rock’s Ruins Park got its name
  • 20160613 -  Glen Rock veteran served in the 87th Pennsylvania; captured at 2nd Winchester
  • 20160425 -  Glen Rock Claimed Youngest Civil War Soldier from York County - Part 2 (Postscript)
  • 20160424 -  Glen Rock Claimed Youngest Civil War Soldier from York County - Part 1
  • 20160407 -  York history groups tightly weave community fabric
  • 20160301 -  How York County history, digital world link up
  • 20160229 -  York County secrets: Teens sift through history
  • 20160229 -  The past meets the future in Glen Rock museum
  • 20151229 -  Can whistle, carolers sing from one songbook?
  • 20151220 -  Photo Freezes Glen Rock Assets into Frame
  • 20151118 -  LED Holiday Star to Light Up Glen Rock
  • 20151029 -  New Blog Address:  ydr.com/blog/yorktownsquare   ↑
  • 20151028 -  Glen Rock: These are its accomplished people
  • 20151005 -  Recognizing Glen Rock’s Neuhaus brothers: Sellers of everything from field plows to dynamite
  • 20150920 -  Change in York County, Pa.? Yes, here’s one example of how it happens all the time
  • 20150905 -  Ghost signs in Glen Rock, Pa.: They have new life for rail trail users to enjoy
  • 20150529 -  Glen Rock’s Ruins Hall: What was on that site that became ruins?
  • 20150326 -  Visitors to York County, Pa.: Don’t be like the British and let a town fool you
  • 20150318 -  AMP’s early story in Pennsylvania: Glen Rock cigar factory rolled into electronics plant
  • 20150314 -  Hanover Branch Railroad provided way to get iron ore to market – and Lincoln to Gettysburg
  • 20150313 -  U.A. Whitaker’s AMP plant in Glen Rock, Pa.: ‘The landscape reminded him of the rural Midwest’
  • 20150106 -  Firefighters hope to restore historic star
  • 20150106 -  Picturing History: Glen Rock Hose and Ladder
  • 20150104 -  Could factory whistle and Glen Rock Carolers harmonize
  • 20150104 -  Glen Rock Hose and Ladder Co. has protected the Rock since 1901
  • 20141231 -  Could factory whistle and Glen Rock Carolers harmonize
  • 20141215 -  Glen Rock Carolers will now be seen year round in bronze
  • 20141202 -  Glen Rock Carolers to be honored with statue
  • 20141202 -  Glen Rock family gifts memorial to honor original Glen Rock Carolers
  • 20141004 -  Fire Company Plaque Dedication
  • 20140904 -  Glen Rock CCC Camp
  • 20140811 -  Students bring local history to life with Glen Rock Library mural
  • 20140724 -  Bird’s-eye view of a young Susquehannock High School
  • 20140717 -  York County history topics are graduate theses waiting to happen
  • 20140625 -  1968-69 Susquehannock boys’ basketball team
  • 20140604 -  Fissel‘s School: How students learned a lot in one room
  • 20140601 -  Fissels One Room School Open House
  • 20140527 -  Peoples Bank's First Home
  • 20140520 -  Peoples Bank - 150 Years of Banking
  • 20140422 -  Foustown, now a ghost town, captivates people
  • 20140325 -  This York County tractor ranked as high-tech – 100 years ago
  • 20140325 -  Talk on Rail Events in the 1800‘s for the Glen Rock area
  • 20140325 -  Nathaniel Seitz; from Glen Rock ITEM Editor to Stock Car Inventor
  • 20140224 -  More about York County's Cameron Mitchell
  • 20140223 -  Old York County dirt track brought sounds of revving engines, cheering fans to middle of no where
  • 20140222 -  Bowling Green Speedway illustrates York County’s love affair with its cars
  • 20140131 -  Cameron Mitchell: Call goes out for historical marker, scholarship
  • 20140128 -  Cameron Mitchell’s ties to York County
  • 20140127 -  When the Mutual Horse Thief Detecting Society met in York County
  • 20140126 -  Stamp Collecting ... Glen Theatre
  • 20140123 -  Cameron Mitchell, York County native
  • 20131230 -  Glen Rock's Summer Britcher headed to 2014 Winter Games
  • 20131229 -  Glen Rock Carolers to host carol festival at home
  • 20131224 -  Glen Rock Carolers keep tradition going since 1848
  • 20131222 -  Glen Rock Carolers make the BBC
  • 20131201 -  When the waters of the Codorus challenged the Rocks of the Glen - Part 2
  • 20131109 -  When the waters of the Codorus challenged the Rocks of the Glen - Part 1
  • 20131029 -  #25 Industrial Sewing Company of Glen Rock; 1 Male & 95 Female Employees in 1899
  • 20131020 -  Korean War vets honored in Glen Rock
  • 20131017 -  Facebook groups remember when - York Daily Record Front Page
  • 20131006 -  10 fascinating stories about Glen Rock’s ‘splendid little opera house’
  • 20130930 -  Historic Glen Theatre celebrates 100th anniversary
  • 20130927 -  I-83 Crash
  • 20130925 -  Walk Around The Rock
  • 20130920 -  Good Day in Glen Rock Part II
  • 20130919 -  Good Day in Glen Rock Part I
  • 20130901 -  Fissels One Room School 1896
  • 1997-2011 -  Glen Rock Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
  • 20130704 -  Civil War Facts About York County
  • 20130621 -  Mignano Brothers serves meal to Glen Rock firefighters
  • 20130614 -  Rocks in the Glen turns into town where things happen, Part III
  • 20130603 -  York No. 17 steam locomotive makes first run
    from New Freedom to Glen Rock
  • 20130526 -  York County pharmacies with soda fountains
  • 20130518 -  Glen Rock’s Roland F. Seitz
  • 20130410 -  Flattering collection
  • 20130408 -  North Codorus Township’s Diehl’s one-room school
  • 20130318 -  Foustown: Glen Rock-area company town, now ghost town
  • 20130306 -  Glen Rock Storms
  • 20130208 -  Charles H. Glatfelter, distinguished historian
  • 20130202 -  The last picture show: Glen Rock’s Glen Theatre
  • 20130109 -  Otts Hufnagel writes about Glen Rock’s first mill
  • 20121213 -  Glen Theatre ... Last picture show ...
  • 20121015 -  Glen Theatre ... standing room only
  • 20121010 -  English carolers strengthen their bond with Glen Rock
  • 20120927 -  Glen Rock’s I-83 interchange A Changin’
    – Linked in to York County history
  • 20120924 - Newspaper was quite the ‘Item’
  • 20120915 - Factories made into lofts, York’s biggest growth industry
    – Linked in to York County history (Glen Theater)
  • 20120910 - York County Heritage Trust - Community
    Award to Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society
  • 20120905 - Our take: Smokestack lightning
  • 20120904 - Bringing Glen Rock’s Great Depression-era CCC camp back to life
  • 20120831 - Updated photo: Foust distillery smokestack taken down
  • 20120829 - Glen Rock-area demolition team attacks Billy Foust’s stack
  • 20120828 - Two smokestacks coming down in York County
  • 20120822 - Spirits put Foustown, the ghost town near Glen Rock, on the map
  • 20120822 - The Tragedy of Brewery Foust(us)
  • 20120822 - Foust distillery smokestack to come down
  • 20120605 - Besser’s, always open on the Susquehanna Trail
  • 20120401 - The tale of two big birds:
    The eagles of Lake Marburg v. the vultures of Glen Rock
  • 20120314 - Glen Rock reportedly the leader of Pennsylvania Girl Scout pack
  • 20120322 - The showdown in Vulture Gulch
  • 20120211 - Good night in Glen Rock:
    Dinner and a movie and the American dream, Part II
  • 20120210 - Good night in Glen Rock:
    Dinner and a movie and the American dream, Part I
  • 20120209 - Parade Music Prince Roland Seitz: From Glen Rock to Friday Night Lights
  • 20120201 - Old plow aids in planting of new Glen Rock
  • 20111119 - New museum opening in southern York County
  • 20110902 - Those 1912 drivers and other stories around Glen Rock, Pa.
  • 20110831 - Those were the days in York County
  • 20110825 - Anyone know why this Glen Rock church lacks a steeple?
  • 20110827 - Part II: Rocks in the Glen turns into town where things happen
  • 20101015 - Glen Rock mural adds to interesting sights awaiting York County, Pa., rail trail users
  • 20100529 - Christmas in June? Yes, that’s part of 150th events in southern York County’s Glen Rock.
  • 20091231 - Kind-spirited imitators from across the Mason-Dixon Line flatter York County’s Glen Rock Carolers
  • 20090907 - Books about Glen Rock abound, and there’s a lot of history to write about
  • 20090831 - This time, entrepreneur in York County’s Glen Rock bet on the wrong horse
  • 20081206 - Glen Rock native Cliff Heathcote: played major league baseball from 1918 to 1932
  • 20080903 - Mystery of Glen Rock-area’s Narrow Gauge Road deepens
  • 20080706 - Add obscure marker to list of things to see in Glen Rock
  • 20080517 - Glen Rock Mill Inn: ‘They are happy to see it open again’
  • 20080507 - Parade Music Prince Roland F. Seitz: From Shrewsbury Township – Glen Rock to Friday Night Lights
  • 20080430 - Baseball & York County–Like Mom & Apple Pie
  • 20080411 - Two Tales of Four Schools
  • 20080302 - Foustown now a ghost town: Raid there once netted 300 barrels of quality firewater
  • 20080223 - Rocks in the Glen turns into town where things happen
  • 20080217 - Glen Rock hilltop farm: ‘You cannot stay stressed here for long’
  • 20080108 - Museum goer: ‘I really like these old pictures of Glen Rock’
  • 20071205 - Glen Rock singers salute English caroling custom
  • 20070928 - Former York County CCC camp now on map
  • 20070629 - Glen Rock marked site of AMP/Tyco’s first Pa. plant
  • 20070629 - Legendary Glen Rock Carolers to publish history
  • 20060822 - The Unsolved York County mystery of locomotive No. 1689