Newberrytown
This village was laid out by Cornelius Garretson, in the year 1791. It is located near the center of Newberry Township, on a ridge of trap formation nearly two miles in width and extending from a point north of Lewisberry to York Haven. On many parts of this ridge are huge boulders of dolerite (granite) and the familiar “ironstone.” A short distance west of town, at a point called “Roxbury,” these boulders present to the eye of the observer a novel and interesting sight. A survey was made and forty-three lots laid out by the founder of the town. Soon afterward the following-named persons purchased one or more lots: James Garretson, Henry Krieger, Esq., John Wilson, William Kline, William Wickersham, Samuel Miller, William Bratton, Christopher Wilson, Herman Kline, William Underwood, Zephaniah Underwood, Elisha Kirk, Cornelius Garretson, John McCreary, Samuel Garretson, Jane Willoughby, and Eli Lewis. Nearly all these persons named were Quakers, some of them, or their ancestors, had located there and in the vicinity about fifty years before the founding of the town. Henry Krieger was of German origin, and for many years served as a justice of the peace. Zephaniah Underwood and his son were teachers among the Friends. They belonged to the Warrington Meeting. The streets named in the original plat were Main, on the road to Glancey’s Ferry, on which the town is built; Union, Mill, and Front Streets. Being located on the road leading from Lancaster to Carlisle, crossing the Susquehanna at a ferry chronologically known as Galbreath’s, Lowe’s, Glancey’s and finally as the York Haven Ferry, Newberrytown became an important stopping place. In 1794 about 1,000 soldiers, known as the “Whisky Boys,” passed through the then young village on their way to Carlisle, where they joined the army that was reviewed by President Washington, and marched to the western part of Pennsylvania, to quell the whisky insurrection. Benjamin House accompanied them as a volunteer soldier. He lived somewhere in the immediate vicinity. There were others who did the same, but their names cannot now be ascertained. The soldiers came from Philadelphia and the eastern counties. It was during the month of October. They encamped one night in a meadow one mile northeast of Lewisberry, and the next day crossed the Yellow Breeches Creek at Lisburn, thence to Carlisle.