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Due to the extreme heat, afternoon tours of the Colonial Complex are cancelled this week.
Special July 4 hours – The History Center Museum and Colonial Court House will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Click here for more details.
On July 11 the Fire Museum will open at 12:30 pm.
Recently, several documents were transferred from the Collections Department to the Library and Archives regarding York Veteran Paul Daugherty. Paul was a navigator on a bomber crew during World War II. During a mission over Europe, his aircraft was shot down, and he was captured and interned as a prisoner in Austria. The above scan is a prisoner information form, in German. The History Center has a large collection of documents on Paul’s service and life, along with several of his navigational instruments. His story is one of the hundreds of veterans’ stories the Library and Archives have collected.
