AREA HISTORY:  Borough of Manchester, 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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THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER – Page 615

This beautifully situated and neatly built town for nearly half a century was 
known as “Liverpool,” after the historic English seaport, first named so by its 
sturdy founder, William Reeser.  The situation is truly interesting, and the 
view over a large extent of country fascinating in the extreme.  Immediately to 
the east is a narrow and fertile valley, nearly in the center of which nestles 
the thriving village of Mount Wolf, and through which passes a great highway – 
the Northern Central Railway.  The burghers on the hill must be on the alert or 
else their neighbor town, which they now look down upon, will outgrow their own.  
One seems to be climbing up the hill and the other sliding down.  They may soon 
join hands and form one borough.  Farther to the east is the broad expanse of 
the Susquehanna, and the adjoining counties of Dauphin and Lancaster are 
unfolded to the observer’s view.  The Conewago hills loom up to the northeast of 
Manchester, and to the southwest is the northern part of the great York Valley, 
unrivalled for its beauty and fertility.