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York County History Center

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York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
York County History Center
Phone:
+1 717-848-1587

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


York County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 434,972. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England. York County comprises the York-Hanover, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania. Based on the Articles of Confederation having been adopted in York by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, the local government and business community began referring to York in the 1960s as the first capital of the United States of America. The designation has been debated by historians ever since. Congress considered York, and the borough of Wrightsville, on the eastern side of York County along the Susquehanna River, as a permanent capital of the United States before Washington, D.C., was selected.
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