
This Grandpa' s Knob wind tower in Vermont has links to York County. Background posts: 20 questions and answers to prove your York County WWII smarts, Who were York County's most influential citizens? - Part I and How come few in York know about S. Morgan Smith anymore?
This blog has featured several posts on York pastor-turned-entrepreneur S. Morgan Smith, his company, his family and his church.
One of his company's successor's, Voith Siemens, is best known today for its water turbines - massive machinery that equip the world's largest hydropower dams.
York Sunday News columnist Gordon Freireich shows (12/14/08) the company reached stretched from waterpower to wind before windmills became popular in America as an alternative energy source:


















I've been editor of the York Daily Record/Sunday News for about 5 years and managing editor of the newspaper for 15 years before that. So, York Town Square explores the world of journalism. But I also studied York/Adams in graduate school and have written five books about these fascinating southcentral Pennsylvania counties. So, this blog deals with regional history. Often, journalism and history meet here. They're part of a continuum anyway. My hope is that this site intrigues readers on both accounts. Contact me at
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