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Bainbridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Conoy Township, Lancaster County — it has no borough government of its own and is governed by the township.

Bainbridge stands on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in western Lancaster County, along Pennsylvania Route 441, about 9 miles upstream from Middletown and 10 miles downstream from Columbia.

Before European settlement, the site of Bainbridge was a village of the Conoy people in the first decades of the 1700s, possibly called Conejoholo.

In the early 1700s, Bainbridge became a refuge for the Conoy and Nanticoke tribes, who had been pushed out of their original homelands around present-day Baltimore and across the Chesapeake Bay in Delaware by English settlers.

One of the earliest European land claims in the Bainbridge area came in 1719, when French-Canadian fur trader Peter Bisaillon was granted 700 acres near Conoy Creek.

Bainbridge had 1,536 residents at the 2020 census, up from 1,355 people at the 2010 census, spread across about 2.3 square miles.

Just south of Bainbridge are the White Cliffs of Conoy, pale limestone-quarry cliffs overlooking the Susquehanna River that are open to the public.

Bainbridge's Koser Park is the starting point of a paved river trail that runs about 15 miles through Marietta and Columbia along the Susquehanna.

From Bainbridge's riverfront you can look across the Susquehanna to the Brunner Island Steam Electric Station on the opposite bank.

The community has its own Bainbridge Elementary School on North Second Street, serving local children in kindergarten through third grade.