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How the Lincoln Highway shaped lodging in Springettsbury: a century of inns, motels and redevelopment
Summary
Steven Smith traced the rise of inns and later motels along the Lincoln Highway (East Market Street) in Springettsbury Township, documenting 14 historic lodging places, notable openings from 1752 to the 1960s, and a present-day inventory of nine active hotels providing about 742 rooms.
At History Night, Steven Smith, chairman of the Springettsbury Township Historic Preservation Committee, presented a chronological survey of lodging along the township’s 3.7-mile Lincoln Highway corridor, from 18th-century taverns to midcentury motor courts and present hotel developments.
Smith said the township’s earliest recorded lodging was the Valley Inn (the site later known as the Ye Olde Valley Inn), with origins cited to 1752, and he recounted ownership changes under the Houston family and later occupants before the building’s 1962 demolition to widen East Market Street for the York Mall. He identified Emig’s (Amig’s) Hotel as another early establishment (opened 1847) and noted its conversion to a private home after 1916.
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