AREA HISTORY:  Villages of Codorus and North Codorus Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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VILLAGES – Page 703

New Salem Borough, in the eastern part of North Codorus is a pleasant village of 
about sixty houses.  It was recently incorporated.  The postoffice name is York 
New Salem.  Swartz & Kailbaugh and Jonas Joseph are engaged in the mercantile 
business.  John S. Kline and Emanuel Smith are the hotel keepers.  Dr. Kehm 
practices medicine.

Stoverstown, in North Codorus, now a village of thirty houses, was named after 
Gabriel Stover, a justice of the peace who some years ago moved to Maryland.  R. 
B. Glatfelter conducts a store here.

Glenville is a post village on the Hanover & Baltimore Railroad in Codorus.  It 
has lately grown to be quite a center of trade.  J. A. Klinefelter conducts a 
general business at this place.  Dr. Keller practices medicine in the vicinity.  
Sticks’ tavern is one of the landmarks of Codorus; for more than half a century 
there was a postoffice at this place known as Hetricks, which has lately been 
moved to Glenville.  Dr. W. C. Stick resides here.  Brodbeck’s store, now owned 
by Samuel Brodbeck is a very old business stand.  H. H. Myers conducts a store 
in North Codorus at Cold Spring, and W. T. Crist in the west end of the 
township.

The large building at Hanover Junction was built by the Hanover Branch Railroad 
Company.  It was used as a hotel until 1877.  Some of the proprietors of it were 
John Scott, Hamilton Glessner and Jesse Engles.  There is a coal shute and water 
tank on the North Codorus Railway, a short distance south of the Junction.  A 
thirty horse-power engine is used to force water from the Codorus to the cars.  
A squad of Confederates under Col. White burned the covered railroad bridges, a 
few cars, and set fire to the turntable, in June 1863, during the invasion.  H. 
I. Glatfelter is the postmaster of this place.