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1910 Map of York

Name: 1910 Topographic Map of York
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1939
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1939

About this map

The city of York sits at the nexus of a bustling rail and road network in this early twentieth-century survey of York County. The industrial and agricultural landscape is defined by the corridors of the Northern Central RR and the Maryland and Pennsylvania RR, which connect the urban center to outlying boroughs like Red Lion and Dallastown. Along the Codorus Creek, early infrastructure is visible through the York Water Co Pumping Station and several mill sites including Reynolds Mill and Paper Mill.

Rural life is densely documented through family-named landmarks and local institutions, from the Margaretta Furnace school to various houses of worship such as Canadochly Church and Mt Pisgah Church. Small crossroads settlements like Paradise (Jacobus P.O.) and Bittersville appear alongside the winding paths of the Stewartstown RR and the Stewartstown Turnpike, illustrating a period when regional commerce relied heavily on these localized transit links before the era of modern highways.