DESCRIPTION:
Subject: Bird's-Eye View of Business Section, York, PA
Condition: Excellent (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: No
Year: Ca. 1930
Publisher: Curteich Chicago
"The City of York, Pennsylvania - named for York, England - was part of the building of our nation, a little-known part of history that many tend to forget, or just don't know. As Yorkers know, their City was the birthplace of the Articles of Confederation and it was here that the words "The United States of America" were first spoken.
That big bombshell out of the way, (and yes, we have proof,) we can begin with York history sometime before 1741, when two surveyors laid out a town on the banks of the Codorus Creek That town would become York. Baltzer Spengler and Ulrich Whisler are given credit for forming the first town west of the Susquehanna River. Both were surveyors with the William Penn family, the family that gave our state its name.
In September of 1777 the Continental Congress, under threat of the advancing British, moved the location of the colonies' central government from Philadelphia to Lancaster. Since the State of Pennsylvania's Government was also located in Lancaster, officials decided that a move across the Susquehanna would separate the two sufficiently and the Continental Congress set up shop in the Town of York.
It was in York that the Congress adopted the Articles of
Confederation, proclaimed the first National Day of Thanksgiving,
and signed the French Treaty of Alliance. All of these events
occurred in the nine months York remained Capital of the United
States - until June 27, 1778. That is where The City of York made
history for the United States, ... But since then, York has been
part of the growth of this nation as well as the growth of its
inhabitants." (Attribution: http://yorkcity.org/history)
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