York´s Centenary Memorial
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Excerpt from York´s Centenary Memorial: Comprising a Detailed Description of the Centennial Celebration, in the City of York, September 23d and 24th, 1887, With Illustrations The site of the present city of York was occupied by a thrifty German settlement as early as 1729. The town owed its origin to the wise forethought and business shrewdness of Thomas and John Penn, sons of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Shortly after the first public road had been laid out from "John Wright´s land," now Wrightsville, on the right bank of the Susquehanna river to the Monocacy, near the southern line of the Province, the Penn brothers directed Thomas Cookson, deputy surveyor of Lancaster county, to lay out a plot of ground into squares similar to those in Philadelphia, within the manor of Springettsbury. A manor we may explain is in common law, "a rule of government which a man hath over such as hold land within his fee." The original grant to William Penn contained special powers to erect manors, and in certain conditions with English purchasers, the proprietor reserved 10,000 out of every 100,000 acres sold for such purposes. A survey of the tract on both sides of the Codorus Creek for the site of a town was made by Surveyor Cookson in October, 1741. That gentleman seems to have been charmed by the beauty of the spot. Surrounded on all sides by gently sloping hills, crowned by forests, it seemed the abode of rural peace. The picturesque Codorus flowed through fertile meadows, and numerous springs of water verified the statement of previous visitors that it was a "goodly land, fertile and well watered." The tract east of the creek was laid out in squares 480 feet by 250 feet front, the building lots were 230 by 65 feet. Two streets 80 feet wide, crossing at right angles, were made. One hundred and ten feet were taken at each side to form a public square for markets or public buildings at the intersection of the streets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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