AREA HISTORY:  Visit of Washington in Hanover, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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VISIT OF GEN. WASHINGTON – Page 590

On the afternoon of Friday, July 1, 1791, Gen. Washington arrived in Hanover, 
coming from the southwest, on his return from his great Southern tour to 
Philadelphia, which was then the capital of the United States.  He had but few 
attendants and remained over night with Paul Metzgar who then kept a store and 
public inn on the corner now occupied by Grumbine & Brockley.  This event 
occurred during the third year of his first term as President of the United 
States.

Tradition says, on the following morning he walked down Baltimore Street and 
observed men reaping wheat.  Soon afterward he started for York, arriving there 
at 2 P.M.  (See History of Borough of York, page 553.)