Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in York Haven, PA

York Haven is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, settled in 1814 and incorporated in 1892.

The town was laid out in 1814 under the York Haven Company, with an 'upper town' on the hill and a 'lower town' down by the canal.

York Haven grew up around water power on the Susquehanna River — one of its flour mills could turn out 150 barrels of flour a day, the largest capacity of any mill in Pennsylvania at the time.

In 1880 the York Haven Paper Company built large paper mills on the site of a burned flour mill, creating one of the largest paper mills in the state, driven by about 2,100 horsepower of river hydropower and employing some 250 people.

Charles Dickens stopped at York Haven's Hotel Haven in 1842, drawn by its reputation for the best sauerkraut supper and a five-cent glass of old rye in the county.

The York Haven Power Company built a power plant along the river in 1895.

Today the borough is home to the Brunner Island coal-fired generating plant on the Susquehanna River, operated by PPL Corporation.

York Haven had about 690 residents at the 2020 census, down from 709 in 2010.

The 2000 census counted 809 people in 278 households in the borough, including 197 families.

The borough covers only about 0.3 square miles, making it one of York County's most compact municipalities.