Celebrating 175 Years: the 75th Anniversary

The 75th Anniversary was held October 24-27, 1923. For that celebration the Chamber of Commerce had a delightful 20 page booklets printed, titled: “Yorktown DeWitt County” and “dedicated to the Pioneers of Yorktown”. Pictures of the city where scattered throughout the publication as well as a brief history. It states that the soils of Yorktown were diversified and twelve different crops were…