AREA HISTORY:  Windsorville, 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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WINDSORVILLE – Page 725

Windsorville Postoffice, or Windsorville, is located in the southern part of the township.  
There was a postoffice by that name a distance south of the site of the present village as 
early as the year 1832.  William S. Cornwell, of Manor Furnace fame, was its postmaster then.  
He was succeeded by Rev. Peter Herrman, who kept it many years.  Michael Anstine was the next 
postmaster for thirty-one years, until his death, when Daniel K. Ruby received the appointment.  
Anstine’s store was a central point of interest for more than thirty years.  Around it, in a 
rather attractive little valley, has lately grown up a thrifty village of about forty nicely 
painted and attractively built dwelling houses.  Most of the inhabitants are engaged in the 
tobacco and cigar business.  We refrain from giving the original name of this apparently 
prosperous hamlet, or recording the legend from which it was obtained; if the name was 
practical it was not poetical, and we omit it.  The village schoolhouse is a comfortable 
building.  John N. Flinchbaugh is the present postmaster, and has a store of general 
merchandise, and Jonathan Shindle a similar store.  Some of the mechanical trades are 
represented in the village.