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A Personal Connection to the Burning of The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge...
Bridge Burning from Upper Part of a Civil War era B&W Illustration (Colorization and Text added by S. H. Smith, 2013) My post on Wednesday included the June 29th 1863 report by Robert Crane...
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Why the Discrepancies in Civil War Records? Part 3: George R. Prowell on...
Bridge Burning from Upper Part of a Civil War era B&W Illustration (Colorization and Text added by S. H. Smith, 2013) This series grew out of my post A Personal Connection to the Burning of The...
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Why the Discrepancies in Civil War Records? SUMMARY & Part 4: Wrightsville...
Tabulation of Variations in The Force of Carpenters and Bridge Builders in Report on Destroying The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (S. H. Smith, 2013) This series grew out of my post A Personal...
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#32 Columbia Embroidery Works in Wrightsville; Countdown of Top 50 York...
Location of Columbia Embroidery Company indicated on an 1894 Bird’s-Eye-View Drawing of Wrightsville (Drawing Created and Published in 1894 by T. M. Fowler and James B. Moyer of Morrisville, PA;...
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End of May, over Ten-Feet of Ice at Lockport along Susquehanna in York...
Article in May 21, 1881 issue of the York Daily (From Newspaper Microfilms of the York County Heritage Trust) Ice on the River Bank is the title of an article appearing in the May 21st, 1881 issue of...
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A Retrospective of the Confederate Invasion of 1863
Bridge Burning from Upper Part of a Civil War era B&W Illustration (Colorization and Text added by S. H. Smith, 2013) Why is the 151st anniversary commemorated far less than the 150th? Sometime in...
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Wrightsville, Westphalia, and the First River Bridge
Wrightsville, York County on 1824 Map of Lancaster County, PA, by Joshua Scott (Library of Congress) York County was formed from Lancaster County in 1749; at that time it was reasonable to look at...
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