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We would like to provide the residents of  Stewartstown  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Stewartstown Home page. The Stewartstown Home page provides as much information as possible on Stewartstown. Knowing Stewartstown’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Stewartstown’s Home page, you will also find Stewartstown’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Stewartstown has a population of 1751. 45.8% of Stewartstown’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.2 are female. 55.9% of Stewartstown is married and 63.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $198,911, and the average rent is $674. Household median income in Stewartstown is $57,500, and the individual median income is $33,580. Stewartstown’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.8%), Hispanic(4.3%), Multiple(1.1%), Asian(0.5%), Black(0.4%), Other(0.2%).


There were settlers in the Stewartstown area as early as 1750. This part of southern York County was claimed by both Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the boundary dispute was settled by the surveying of the Mason–Dixon Line in 1767. By 1777, a road had been well established between York and Baltimore, and Stewartstown's main street of today lies along a portion of the road.


Around 1812, a group of farmers set out to establish a town in south central Hopewell Township. The earliest buildings were several houses, a workshop for making furniture and wheels, a store, and a tavern. Anthony Stewart, owner of the workshop, served as the village clerk, and his shop became the main meeting place. The village was first known as Meadstown, after Benedict Meads, owner of the tavern and the store.


Later it became known as Mechanicsburg because of a large number of tradesmen who lived in the community. By 1828, the town had its own post office, and Stewart was appointed the first postmaster. There was already another Pennsylvania town named Mechanicsburg, so postal officials assigned the name "Guilford" to the community.


Through the efforts of Anthony Stewart, with the help of Judge Adam Ebaugh, the Post Office Department changed the town's postmark to "Stewartstown" on March 24, 1832. The Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad and Stewartstown Railroad Station are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


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