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Photos from Open House at Keystone Mausoleum in Mt. Rose Cemetery; and...
Chapel inside Keystone Mausoleum at Mt. Rose Cemetery (2013 Photo, S. H. Smith) The pathways around Mt. Rose Cemetery are one of my regular walking places; definitely good cardio with those hills!...
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Mysteries of Springettsbury Township’s Erb Burial Plot
Top Photo is a detail from an Undated Aerial Photo by Dave Allen [from the Springettsbury Township Historic Preservation Committee Archives] & Lower Photo is a 2014 Bing.com Birds Eye View...
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The Missing Gravestones of Springettsbury Township; Erb Burial Plot
Plus Correcting Errors & Omissions on the Present Marker Erb Burial Plot graves within Section L of Mt. Rose Cemetery (2014 Photo, S. H. Smith) This photo shows the marker placed over the common...
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Readers Choose Top 10 Posts during August 2015; Thanks for the Feedback
Reader Feedback was used to select the Top 10 Posts during August 2015. Thirteen of the fifteen August posts generated feedback from readers. Blog comments, e-mails, phone calls and conversations...
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Waddy George’s Curioseum in the Accomac Hills
Display of Arrowhead Relics (Source: Pinterest) Bill Neff wrote if I could provide further details about the following message; written on a postcard sent to his grandfather in Virginia and postmarked...
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Digging up human bones in Springettsbury
Human bones were dug up on at least three occasions while constructing buildings within the East York tract in Springettsbury Township. A 1927 newspaper article reported, “It is said that the land on...
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Discover the Graveyard of earliest Spangler in York County
Caspar Spengler was the earliest Spangler to settle in York County, Pennsylvania; doing so in 1729 with his brothers Henry and Baltzer following in 1732. In the search for the lost graveyard of Old...
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