Editing Wrightsville, Pennsylvania (section)

== History ==
[[File:Bridge to wrightsville, pa.jpg|thumb|Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge in 2014 (foreground)]]
According to a plaque at [[Samuel S. Lewis State Park]], which overlooks Wrightsville and the [[Susquehanna River]], Wrightsville was among [[George Washington]]'s choices as the location of the capital of the United States.

The world's longest [[covered bridge]], at {{convert|5,600|ft}}, once spanned the Susquehanna from Wrightsville to neighboring [[Columbia, Pennsylvania|Columbia]] in [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County]]. Built in 1814, it was destroyed by high water and ice in 1832. A replacement bridge was burned the night of June 28, 1863, by state [[militia]] during the [[Gettysburg Campaign]] in the [[American Civil War]]. [[the Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops under [[John Brown Gordon]] formed a bucket brigade to save the town from fire. Yet another replacement covered bridge was destroyed by a windstorm a few years later.

The final bridge, the [[Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge (Columbia, Pennsylvania)|Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge]], was a steel open-air bridge constructed in 1896.  It was razed in the early 1960s because of obsolescence and restructuring of the railroad industry. The site of the former bridge is now home of a concrete bridge known as [[Wright’s Ferry Bridge]]. The bridge standing today is approximately 100 yards north of the original bridge location<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-20 |title=RiverRoots: Bridging the Susquehanna |url=https://www.susquehannaheritage.org/riverroots-bridging-the-susquehanna/ |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=Susquehanna NHA |language=en-US}}</ref>

Wrightsville was the northern terminus of the [[Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal]], which extended to [[Havre de Grace, Maryland]].

In 2007, Wrightsville was the chosen location for the rekindling of the [[War of the Roses]] between the [[York Revolution]] and the [[Lancaster Barnstormers]] baseball teams.  Wrightsville was chosen for its location on the [[Susquehanna River]], the boundary between [[York County, Pennsylvania|York]] and [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]] counties.

The [[Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge]] and [[Wrightsville Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>