Susquehanna Trail: This Old Road Keeps Rolling On

S1, E6: This road, part of a Roaring 20s “Susquehanna Trail” marketing campaign connecting Niagara Falls and Washington, D.C., entered York County at New Cumberland/Fairview Township and exited at the Mason-Dixon Line. Just as the Lincoln Highway created an early 1900s east/west transportation artery, the Susquehanna Trail provided a 1920s north/south corridor. It replaced Route 181, the old road from York to Harrisburg, as the preferred route. But the Susquehanna Trail’s spotlight soon dimmed. In the late 1950s, the Trail was subsumed by the Interstate 83, as the Pennsylvania Turnpike had done 20 years before to the Lincoln Highway. When you add this up, York County’s geography has made it a major transportation hub and the Susquehanna Trail has been - and is - an integral part of it. Jamie Kinsley and Domi Miller explore the trail deeper in Episode 6 of Hometown History.

Presented at the Newberry Township building.

Season 1, 2021: Episode 1 - The Baptist Farm and Underground Railroad: https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/farming-by-day-underground-railroad-by-night/

Episode 2 - Trauma in War and the Workplace: https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/a-soldiers-escape-healing-ptsd-in-nature/

Episode 3 - The People of the Golden Venture: https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/access-to-justice-the-mantra-of-liberty-for-the-golden-venture/

Episode 4 - A Hill to Die on: https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/a-hidden-space-the-potters-field-in-north-york/, Friends of Lebanon Cemetery: https://friendsoflebanoncemetery.com/; Prospect Hill Cemetery: https://prospecthill.org/; City Cemetery/ Potter's Field: https://yorkblog.com/wandering/city-cemetery-potters-field-north-york-grave/

Episode 5 - Millers' Tales: https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/a-woman-with-one-arm-how-the-wallace-sisters-successfully-ran-their-grist-mill-despite-a-disability/

Episode 6 - Susquehanna Trail: This Old Road Keeps Rolling On: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/history/blogs/york-town-square/2008/10/21/susquehanna-trail/31557873/.

Related sites:

Preserving Newberrytown: https://www.facebook.com/groups/96217

Retro York: https://www.facebook.com/groups/retroyork

Witnessing York: https://www.witnessingyork.com/

Wandering in York County: https://yorkblog.com/wandering/