Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Wrightsville, PA

Wrightsville is a borough in York County on the western bank of the Susquehanna River, settled in 1811 and incorporated in 1834, when the village of Wrightsville merged with the town of West Phalia.

The borough is named for early pioneer John Wright, and according to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park overlooking the town, George Washington considered Wrightsville as a possible location for the capital of the United States.

The population of Wrightsville was 2,257 at the 2020 census, and the 2000 census counted 955 households in the borough.

The world's longest covered bridge, at 5,600 feet, once spanned the Susquehanna from Wrightsville to Columbia in Lancaster County; built in 1814, it was destroyed by high water and ice in 1832.

A replacement bridge was burned by Pennsylvania militia on the night of June 28, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign to keep Confederate forces from crossing the Susquehanna — and Confederate troops under General John Brown Gordon then formed a bucket brigade to save Wrightsville itself from the spreading fire.

Wrightsville was the northern terminus of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, which ran south to Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Both the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge and the Wrightsville Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the modern Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge is described as the world's longest concrete multiple-arch bridge.

In 2007 Wrightsville was chosen as the site for rekindling the War of the Roses baseball rivalry between the York Revolution and the Lancaster Barnstormers, because the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville forms the boundary between York and Lancaster counties.

Wrightsville is served by the Eastern York School District.

Fire protection in Wrightsville dates to the early 1800s, and its Wrightsville Steam Fire Engine and Hose Company No. 1, organized in 1887, remains an all-volunteer department.