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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 county of York in England. The county is part of the South Central region of the state.
Founded in 1741, the city of York (the county seat) is one of the oldest European settlements west of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The county was formed in 1748 and was named for James, duke of York and Albany (later King James II).
Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution, Extracted from the author's History of York County, Pennsylvania, Chicago, 1907. Also available in digital form.
York, the county seat, was laid out in 1741 and incorporated as a borough on September 24, 1787. It was chartered as a city on January 11, 1887. Pennsylvania’s 1736 purchase from the Iroquois encompassed this area. The town of York was termed “Yorktown” in the colonial period.
The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.
Sep 20, 2010 · History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present. Divided into general, special, township and borough histories with a biographical department.
Laid out by order of the Penn family as the first city west of the Susquehanna River in 1741, less than four decades later York became the seat of power for our nation when it hosted a Continental Congress on the run from British troops in 1777-78.
