The Conestoga Wagon moved from its location at the Agriculture and Industrial Museum to the new York County History Center museum.

A Conestoga wagon was on the road Thursday morning in downtown York as it was being moved to its home at the new York County History Center.

The Conestoga wagon’s curved shape shifted cargo toward the center and prevented items from sliding on mountain slopes. Railroads replaced Conestoga wagons by the 1850s, but the prairie schooner, a ...

The replica, built in 1976, replaces the 1860s covered wagon that had stood there since 1963. Chastain’s father, Copper Weeks, owns the shopping center, and she and her brother run it.

The Conestoga-type wagon at Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway, believed to be from the 1860s, is in deteriorating shape. Boards and its covering have been replaced multiple times.

After 61 years of rain, wind, snow and sweltering heat that rotted its wood, broke its wheels and corroded its metal, the old covered wagon held. Cooper Weeks worried it wouldn’t. The worst-case ...

I should have given the model name a little more thought — “Conestoga wagon” — isn’t that what the pioneers used to haul their families and belongings out West? Hmm.

Logan used the distinctive wagon with a center-sloping bed to carry furs from his Conestoga River trading post, south of Hendricks’ land, to Philadelphia.