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YORK , a city and the county seat of York county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., aboutSee also: loo m
.
W. of See also: Philadelphia and about 28 M
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S.E. of See also: Harrisburg
.
Pop
.
(19oo) 33,708-1304 being See also: foreign-See also: born and 776 negroes; (1910) 44,750
.
York is served by the See also: Maryland & Pennsylvania, the See also: Northern Central (Pennsylvania) and the Western Maryland See also: railways
.
Among the public buildings are the County See also: Court See also: House (1899) and a large Federal See also: Building (1910)
.
York is the seat of the York Collegiate Institute (1873), founded by See also: Samuel Small (d
.
1885) and of the York County See also: Academy (1785)
.
The See also: Historical Society of York (1895) has a valuable collection of documents See also: relating to See also: local See also: history
.
York is the commercial centre for a See also: rich agricultural region, and has manufactures of foundry and machine-See also: shop products, See also: silk goods, &c
.
The See also: total factory product in 1905 was valued at $14,258,696
.
York, the first permanent See also: settlement in the See also: state W. of the Susquehanna, was laid out in 1741 in what was then the See also: Manor of Springettsbury (named in honour of Springett Penn, a See also: grand-son of See also: William Penn) by
See also: Thomas Cookson, a surveyor for
See also: Richard and Thomas Penn, then the proprietors of the colony, and was named after York, See also: England
.
The first settlers were chiefly Germans from the Rhenish See also: Palatinate, who were See also: Lutherans, Reformed, See also: Mennonites and Moravians
.
See also: English See also: Quakers and Scotch-Irish settled here also
.
The settlement See also: lay on the Monocacy road, the See also: main See also: line of travel to the S. and S.W., and it See also: grew rapidly, especially between 1748 and 1751
.
In 1749 the county of York was erected (from See also: Lancaster coun .y) and York was made the county-seat
.
In 1754 York had 217; houses and Imo inhabitants
.
Troops from York took See also: part in the Seven Years' War and the War of See also: American Independence
.
In the old county court-house (built in 1754-56, pulled down in 1841) the See also: Continental Congress sat from the 3oth of See also: September 1777 to the 27th of See also: June 1778, having See also: left Philadelphia on the approach of the See also: British, and having held a See also: day's session at Lancaster
.
At York the Congress passed the Articles of Confederation (asth of See also: November 1777) and received See also: news of the American victory at See also: Saratoga and of the See also: signing of See also: treaties between the See also: United States and See also: France
.
The See also: Conway cabal came to an end here, and the arrival here of Baron Steuben and of See also: Lafayette in 1777 helped the American cause
.
In September 1778, $r,50o,00o in See also: silver lent by France to the United States was brought to York; and Benjamin See also: Franklin's See also: press, removed from Philadelphia, issued $1o,o0o,000 of Continental See also: money
.
Thomas Paine here wrote part of his Fifth Crisis
.
See also: Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is buried here
.
In the
See also: Civil War, Confederate troops under General See also: John B
.
See also: Gordon entered York on the 28th of June 1863, and a small Federal force retreated before them; and the See also: battle of See also: Gettysburg was fought about 28 M
.
E
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York was incorporated as a See also: borough in 1787 and was chartered as a city in 1887
.
See G
.
R
.
Prowell, The City of York, Past and See also: Present (York, 1904), and C
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See also: Hawkins and H
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Landis, York and York County (ibid
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