Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Glen Rock, PA

Glen Rock is a borough in southern York County, Pennsylvania, and part of the York-Hanover metropolitan area.

Glen Rock was founded by William Heathcote, an immigrant from Cheshire, England, who bought a 93-acre farm on March 31, 1837 for $3,425 and built a brick woolen mill powered by the South Branch of Codorus Creek.

In December 1843 Heathcote suggested the name Glen Rock, inspired by lines from Sir Walter Scott's poem Marmion.

The first passenger train reached the settlement in August 1838, when the station was simply known as 'W. Heathcote's.'

Glen Rock was incorporated as a borough on August 29, 1859, after its roughly 200 residents petitioned the courts.

Glen Rock's population was 2,123 at the 2020 census.

The Glen Rock Historic District, covering the borough's major streets, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Heathcote's old woolen mill is the oldest surviving building in Glen Rock; after closing in the 1980s it reopened as a boutique hotel and restaurant.

In the early 1900s Read Machinery made Glen Rock a center of bakery-equipment manufacturing - the borough history calls it one of the world's largest makers of bakery machinery, employing about 190 people at its peak.

Glen Rock is home to the Southern York County School District, whose offices are in the borough; the district enrolls about 2,700 students in five schools.