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According to Becky Anstine, this old
white house was drawn on the 1799 map of York County, almost exactly
as it looks today and an Abraham Yost was living there then.
This is probably one of the properties that Abraham bought from the
estate of his father, Nicholas Jost, Sr.
The house is located close by the
road known as the Susquehanna Trail that runs from York to the Maryland
state line. Just north of
Jacobus, Pennsylvania, there is an old bridge at Lake Williams and Lake
Redman. As soon as you cross this bridge, heading north toward York,
the house is on the right. This
bridge would have been the boundary line between Shrewsbury and York
townships then.
This property was also the site of
the Keystone woolen mill. Adam
Hendricks, Jr. had shares in this mill that were either sold or inherited
by his children when he died.
Pictures by Charles Diederich, September 2001
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