York

York, the capital of York county, Pennsylvania, on Codorus Creek, 28 miles by rail SSE. of Harrisburg. It has a large granite court-house, a handsome collegiate institute, numerous churches, and several foundries, car-factories, railway-shops, planing-mills, and manufactories of shoes, condensed milk, &c. York, which is a pleasant town, dates from 1741, and was the seat of the Continental congress for a time in 1777. Pop. (1880) 13,940; (1890) 20,793.