Walk with us along the York County Heritage Rail Trail, following the path of the 19th-century Northern Central Railway. Let’s start at the Maryland line and particularly take in the towns along the way - New Freedom, Railroad, Glen Rock, Seven Valleys and York. These are towns that are finding renewed energy from rail trail users like us. We stop, talk, shop and appreciate these old towns. And importantly, these towns remain the place where York County’s people live, work, worship and play. They are places that have seen a lot and offered much, making the map or receiving a boost when this old railroad corridor first punched through from Baltimore in 1838. And this ribbon of a county park - the 27-mile rail trail - will be tied when its northern and southern sections meet in York this spring. At that point, New Freedom in York County’s south will shake hands with Manchester Township in its northeast, drawing two key regions of the county more closely together in the way the old Northern Central knit York and Baltimore. In partnership with the York County Economic Alliance.

Season 2, 2022

Episode 2.1 - All in One Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgo8fAxhO68

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/one-room-schools-york-county-pa/

Episode 2.2 - Stitching Secret Messages: https://youtu.be/ZlSo7zjCuQo

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/quilting-as-a-symbol-of-independence/

Episode 2.3 - Bridging the Susquehanna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8CpirdR_uA&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=6&t=694s

Episode 2.4 - Hellam's Horn Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIw-bhYjfAo&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=8&t=1s

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/horn-farm-this-old-york-county-place-fights-adversity/

Season 1, 2021

Episode 1.1 - The Baptist Farm and Underground Railroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG2sWWEION4&t=69s

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/farming-by-day-underground-railroad-by-night/

Episode 1.2 - Trauma in War and the Workplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qX5Bii_LE&t=1s

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/a-soldiers-escape-healing-ptsd-in-nature/

Episode 1.3 - The People of the Golden Venture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOgEgctNYck&list=PLtbDp4leDwa070VfzjPh7bienFPDDppwq&index=5&t=3s

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/access-to-justice-the-mantra-of-liberty-for-the-golden-venture/

Episode 1.4 - A Hill to Die on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX22YCQuvcQ&list=PLtbDp4leDwa070VfzjPh7bienFPDDppwq&index=4&t=4s

https://www.witnessingyork.com/mapping-meaning/a-hidden-space-the-potters-field-in-north-york/

Episode 1.5 - Millers' Tales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSuGKetfYo&list=PLtbDp4leDwa070VfzjPh7bienFPDDppwq&index=3&t=924s

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

Episode 1.6 - Susquehanna Trail: This Old Road Keeps Rolling On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2oV5yRPRuk&list=PLtbDp4leDwa070VfzjPh7bienFPDDppwq

Related sites:

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

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

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

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

EXTRAS:

Hometown History EXTRA with Codie Eash, Civil War expert: Sacrificing our Bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db18uK_OHF0&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=7&t=1s

Hometown History EXTRA with Sara Bixler - Stitching secret messages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3li87J2M9c&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=2&t=4s

Hometown History EXTRA with Zach Routson, Local grower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFw62SDjHE&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=9

SHORTS:

Early farmers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T675G-JlT-I&list=PLtbDp4leDwa1JZVq8wkIKUqp9esXET-CK&index=10

Keenheel quilt:

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