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Dillsburg is a borough in northwestern York County, Pennsylvania, in the foothills of South Mountain, and it is part of the York-Hanover metropolitan area.

Dillsburg is named for Matthew Dill, an immigrant from County Monaghan, Ireland, who settled the town in 1740 and became one of the eight original court justices of York County in 1749.

Before it settled on its final name, the settlement was also known as Monaghan Settlement, Dills, Dillstown and Dillston.

Dillsburg was incorporated on April 9, 1833, from land in Carroll Township, and grew up as a center for the surrounding farm country.

During the Gettysburg campaign of the Civil War, Dillsburg was twice invaded by Confederate cavalry, first by Albert G. Jenkins's brigade and then by J.E.B. Stuart's division.

Dill's Tavern, founded in the 1750s with its present stone building constructed between 1794 and 1819, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as a living history museum run by the Northern York County Historical and Preservation Society.

Dillsburg counted about 2,640 residents at the 2020 census, up steadily from just 244 people in 1840.

Dillsburg leans into the pun in its name every New Year's Eve with its famous Pickle Drop, when a giant pickle is lowered at midnight, with a smaller 'baby pickle' drop held earlier in the evening for children.

The borough also hosts the annual Dillsburg Farmers Fair, a harvest-season tradition that has been cherished locally for more than 70 years.

Dillsburg children attend the Northern York County School District, whose Northern High School serves the borough and surrounding townships, and U.S. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay was born in Dillsburg in 1833.