AREA HISTORY:  Cross Roads Postoffice, 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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CROSS ROADS POSTOFFICE – Page 755

This has long been a place of interest in Hopewell.  The old much traveled wagon 
road from Wrightsville and Columbia to Baltimore passes this point and four other 
roads diverge from it.  Robert Smith half a century ago began store keeping here.  
He was followed by John Leight; William S. Logan has conducted the mercantile 
business for twenty-six years; John Logan who by the way, is quite a local 
historian, has been postmaster at Cross Roads for forty-nine years.  He received his 
appointment under President Van Buren, and has held the office continuously since.  
Mr. Logan is the son of James Logan who emigrated from County of Antrim, Ireland, 
and located in Hopewell in 1801 and died in Cumberland County in 1817.  The 
Methodist Church of this place, belongs to the Stewartstown Circuit.  Dr. T. M. 
Currans a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania has practiced medicine at Cross 
Roads for twenty-eight years.  Frank’s Rock, three quarters of a mile north of Cross 
Roads Postoffice, obtained its name from a civilized Indian who had a wigwam there 
after the whites had settled around him.  There is now a saw-mill owned by Frederick 
J. Myers near this spot.  The “Old Round Hill Church” stood about one and a half 
miles north of Cross Roads Postoffice.  The burying ground is still carefully 
enclosed.  The first person interred in it, a man named Liggett, was frozen to death 
while hunting deer in a deep snow during the year 1760 or thereabouts.  Tradition 
says he was found dead leaning against a tree with his gun grasped firmly in his 
hand; a giant white oak with its spreading branches, stands in the centre of this 
historic spot.  This tree was doutless there when the first white settler came.