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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 4512560, member: 24633&quot;]From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>York, also known as Yorktown in the mid 18th to early 19th centuries, was founded in 1741 by settlers from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" rel="nofollow">Philadelphia</a> region and named for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York" rel="nofollow">English city</a> of the same name. By 1777, most of the area residents were of either German or Scots-Irish descent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_Pennsylvania#cite_note-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_Pennsylvania#cite_note-12" rel="nofollow">[12]</a> York was incorporated as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_(Pennsylvania)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_(Pennsylvania)" rel="nofollow">borough</a> on September 24, 1787, and as a city on January 11, 1887. During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" rel="nofollow">American Revolutionary War</a> (1775–1783), York served as the temporary capital of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress" rel="nofollow">Continental Congress</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" rel="nofollow">Articles of Confederation</a> was drafted and adopted in York, though they were not ratified until March 1781.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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