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John Wright was an emigrant English pioneer, colonial period businessman who established Wright's Ferry (and eventually the town eponymously named for it). The resulting increase in settlement triggered nine years of armed conflict during the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute known as Cresap's War .
Wright's Ferry (1730-1901) shown on the map near the triangle of disputed territory. Wright's Ferry was a Pennsylvania Colony settlement established by John Wright in 1726, that grew up around the site of an important Inn and Pub anchoring the eastern end of a popular animal powered ferry (1730–1901) and now a historic part of Columbia, Pennsylvania.
John Wright (businessman) (fl. 1724–1787), American businessman who established Wright's Ferry; John Wright (bookseller died 1844) (1770/1–1844), English bookseller, author, editor and publisher; John Wright (shipbuilder) (1835–1910), Scottish/Australian shipbuilder; Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet (1843–1926), British steel manufacturer
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In May 1881, the owner’s son, John Coyle Jr., shot and killed a servant, Emily Myers, when she refused his advances. Coyle was charged with murder and, after the case was moved to Gettysburg, he ...
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PA-28's current senator is Republican Kristin Phillips-Hill, who assumed office in 2019. Before being elected she served in the Pennsylvania House from 2015 to 2018. Wrightsville is District 47 in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. PA-47 is currently represented by Republican Joe D'Orsie.
Columbia, formerly Wright's Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 10,222. [3] It is 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg, on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River, across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30.