Highpoint, Native Lands parks teach downstream lessons
Jim McClure
But, oh, the sights you see at the top are worth navigating those grades.
The rewards of all that effort seemingly thankless when you’re in the middle of those climbs are indicative of the hard work that led to the acquisition of these hilltop vistas in the first place. But what resulted is worth those fights.
Lawsuits. Eminent domain proceedings. Political opportunists. It took trench warfare to secure those hilltops.
Fifteen years ago, York County’s government and allies were in middle of a battle with private landowners in an epic attempt to save that Susquehanna River view land from development. The dispute generally would be referred to as Lauxmont, the original home of Highpoint and Native Lands parks.
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