York

York, city, seat (1749) of York county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on Codorus Creek, 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg. It is the focus of a metropolitan district that includes the boroughs of North York and West York and a number of townships. York was laid out (1741) in Springettsbury Manor, a tract owned by Springett Penn, William Penn’s grandson, and was named for York, England. In 1777 the Continental Congress left Philadelphia at the...