AREA HISTORY:  Incorporation, Wrightsville, 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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INCORPORATION – Page 597

Wrightsville was incorporated as a borough, April 11, 1834, and the first 
election was held on the 9th of May, following.  At this election Henry Snyder 
was elected chief burgess, William Wilson, assistant burgess, Tempest Wilson, 
Michael Clepper, Samuel Sheaffer, George Green and Robert W. Smith, members of 
the town council, and Jacob Harris, constable.  This council organized on the 
12th of the same month by the election of Robert W. Smith, president of the 
council.  The amount of the tax duplicate levied by this council at a tax rate 
of 2½ mils was $162.87, showing the assessed values of the property in the 
borough at the time to have been $65,148.  These facts may be interesting in 
comparison with the present.  The assessed valuation of real estate for 1884, 
was $439,560; number of taxable inhabitants 541.  A writer describing 
Wrightsville a few years later (1844), says:  “It contains between sixty and 
seventy dwellings, several stores and taverns.  Population about 800.  A good 
turnpike leads from this place through York to Gettysburg, in Adams County.  
This place may, before many years, become of some note and distinction.”