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


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

York Springs has a population of 1028. 48.5% of York Springs’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.5 are female. 63.6% of York Springs is married and 36.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $151,636, and the average rent is $923. Household median income in York Springs is $57,917, and the individual median income is $21,637. York Springs’s Ethnic is the following: White(56.4%), Hispanic(47%), Other(42.9%), Multiple(0.5%), Black(0.2%).


York Springs was platted as Petersburg within Latimore Township. York Sulphur Springs, the first summer resort in Adams County, was patronized by people from Philadelphia and Baltimore who came to the resort by stage coach. General George Washington and his wife Martha visited the area in the summer of 1799.


The water was regarded as medicinal but unpalatable. Analysis claimed 20 parts Epsom salts, 6 parts gypsum, 4 parts common salt, and the balance sulfur. The hotel was destroyed by fire on January 8, 1896. The Springs' popularity decreased with the construction of the railroad and the resort buildings disappeared.York Springs' previous names were York Sulphur Springs and Petersburg.


To completely end confusion with Littlestown, when Petersburg became a borough in 1868 it was named York Sulphur Springs, later shortened to York Springs.


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