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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 4512591, member: 74863&quot;]There have actually been 9 locations for the capital. Depending on ones definition the claim varies.</p><p><br /></p><p>York is actually where the Articles of Confederation were drafted. York sometimes declares itself the First Capital of the United States because the Articles of Confederation are the first known legal documents to actually refer to the colonies as &quot;the United States of America.&quot; The Declaration of Independence uses the phrase as well, but some historians say it wasn&#039;t a legal document at the time because the colonies were still under British rule.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the Articles of Confederation are argued to be legal. </p><p><br /></p><p>York has numerous monuments, land markers and historic sites, all with government ties claiming it to be the first capital. York has made the claim for over 200 years and the federal government does not argue against that. Is it the first? I really don&#039;t know but they claim it is and history shows us it&#039;s a good argument.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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