Hometown History: Jamie And Domi's Yoco Backstory

Bob Mann's work at the Farquhar Park. He continuously places fresh flowers at the interpretative plaques of the memorial to Lillie Belle Allen and Henry C. Schaad, 2 individuals who were killed in the 1969 race riots. Jacob Lemon is the man behind the restoration efforts at Smoketown Cemetery. Recently, he's been able to take his love for history and turn it into a full blown one-man restoration p...

The Hanover Area, by intention or not, has long fashioned itself as an outsider in York County. Indeed, some in that southwestern region sought to form their own county in the early 1800s. In the Civil War era, Hanover on again operated against the grain. Hanoverians voted Republican in a sea of Democratic, anti-Lincoln townships. When the Confederates came calling the first time, in late June 186...

Codorus Creek has graduated from its “Inky Stinky” class, but few would call it a winsome waterway, with those high banks and scant creekside access. Years of use - and abuse - have caused many York Countians to simply walk over it with little thought, despite it being one of our most historically important waterways. Listen to Jamie Noerpel and Dominish Miller as they interview Mayor Michael Helf...

Codorus Creek has graduated from its “Inky Stinky” class, but few would call it a winsome waterway, with those high banks and scant creekside access. Years of use - and abuse - have damaged the York Countian’s image of what could be. But modern perceptions can’t alter the fact that the Codorus shaped York County culture from the indigenous peoples through colonialism and into the 21st century. Hun...

Don Robinson, Old Line Museum Volunteer, speaks with Jamie and Domi about the Welsh quarrymen’s cottages and the history of Delta- Peach Bottom area.

In the 1840s, the Welsh came to the Delta-Peach Bottom area to quarry slate, as they had in Wales for generations. The quarries boomed for 75 years and then declined from the World War I era to World War II, but the Welsh influence remains today. When high school students from Wales visited Delta in 2023, some felt that they were in their native country. Some found their hometowns inscribed on tom...

In the 1840s, the Welsh came to the Delta-Peach Bottom area to quarry slate, as they had in Wales for generations. The quarries boomed for 75 years and then declined from the World War I era to World War II, but the Welsh influence remains today. When high school students from Wales visited Delta in 2023, some felt that they were in their native country. Some found their hometowns inscribed on tom...

A century ago, many roads led to the borough of York Haven. Canal Road was one, and the early highway to Harrisburg was another. A trolley line connected York with York Haven. The Conewago flowed into the Susquehanna at York Haven. The town hosted first grist milling and then a major paper mill. An early American canal - Canal Road’s namesake -  cut through to allow water craft to circumvent the f...

Highlighting six local York County books that didn't make it into the main presentation

In 2003, Eric Ledell Smith looked at the local history enterprise in York County, writing in a statewide journal that York County was experiencing a “renaissance” of history writing. In the 20 years since that assessment from this noted Pennsylvania historian, York County has amassed a wealth of local history research in thoughtfully written books and digital platforms. These works about York’s pa...

Silas Chamberlain, author of “On the Trail: A History of American Hiking” 

From 1803 to 1833, the Eichelberger family distilled spirits here. Locals from Dill’s town, now Dillsburg, drank here; they dinned here; they celebrated here. In April of 2024, the distillery will re-open for the first time in 200 years. Here’s an explanation of how the Eichelbergers would have distilled their own whiskey.

The Dill’s tavern dates back to the 18th century when taverns were the epicenter of social life. In this episode, Jamie and Domi trace the stone structure’s history back to the first glasses of whiskey were sold up to today with the opening of a “new” distillery.

West Manchester’s Jan Watt is living the dream in her restored West Manchester farmhouse - the Peter Wolf House. “It’s almost like I see it new every day,” she told the YDR several years ago. That, despite the view of a gas station from her bedroom window and the rumble of cars speeding by, as the YDR reported some years ago. The old farmhouse that Watt and her husband, Steve March, have restored...

West Manchester’s Jan Watt is living the dream in her restored West Manchester farmhouse - the Peter Wolf House. “It’s almost like I see it new every day,” she told the YDR several years ago. That, despite the view of a gas station from her bedroom window and the rumble of cars speeding by, as the YDR reported some years ago. The old farmhouse that Watt and her husband, Steve March, have restored...

Jamie and Domi highlight 6 preservation projects throughout York County

The Hoke House is one old property that was THE hottest frontier spot during the 18th century. People lived here. They gossiped here. They built York County here. Built around 1750, the Hoke House first functioned as a tavern that lasted into the next century. In this episode, Jamie and Domi focus on the building's role during the Revolutionary era.

From its founding in 1816, Penn Park served as a place that freedmen and women could disembark from their journey to free soil and take the first steps in building new lives. Later, this public commons served as a gathering place for civil rights vigils and protests. Shouts and cries still echo across the green expanse of Penn Park. Long and short, this green space has served as a coming together...

We might really need a doctor, a lawyer, and a policeman once in a lifetime, the sage says. But every day, you need a farmer. Three times, at least, Indeed, farming is more than keeping your eyes on the row. Always has been. Farm families have multiple crops to plant. Runs to the mill to take. Machinery to fix. Home remedies to make. Animals to birth. Gardens to weed. And then crops to harvest. If...

Two fans talk about Penn Park’s past, present, and future. Charles 'Chub' Neiman, a retired businessman and York High grad with long-term interest in the park Jim Gross, retired City Works director

Growing up in York County: ‘Too Much Ice Cream, Not Enough Paint’

It first served as a police outpost and comfort station. Here’s how it got started: A group of townspeople felt the small shanty used by Patrolman Charles Carr wasn’t adequate. Penn Common Community Association was formed to fund and build a new police station and rest area for the public. They raised the $20,000 to build and furnish the structure through public fundraising

It’s never too late to right a wrong. This is a single story of Native American history in our area.

Domi and Jamie talk from and about a barn, the restored barn at Wyndridge, that is. Farming was, and in some ways still is, an essential part of York County history. Barns were the lifeblood to the traditional, PA Dutch family: They housed the livestock, their food, and equipment throughout the entire year. No where else in the world is the bank barn a characteristic of the region’s architecture a...

Raine Dawn of the Anishinaabe People lives in Spring Grove. Her family is a part of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe still located in North Dakota. Her mother attended a boarding school from the age of six to graduation at age 16. “She was not allowed to know or learn our Native traditions,” Raine says. “She lived in the time where natives were being indoctrinated into the American culture.”