An 1873 postwar journey through York County

(Cannonball) ... We leave the river at once on crossing, and run southwest towards York, one of the most thriving towns in Pennsylvania, and well known to our readers as the locale of the extensive nurseries of E. J. Evans & Co. The whole of this ride is one of great beauty. The land in this part of the country is so rich, that it produces timber of magnificent proportions, while the hill-sides are so steep and rocky, that it will never be used for anything else but timber purposes; so literary fame; so that if forests are the greatest conservators of climate, the great keystone of the Union will always be as she is now, one of the healthiest and best blocks in the national arch. Continued

Photo: Station at Hanover Junction, Northern Central Railway (MDRails)