HISTORY

On the ninth of April, 1881, a group of twenty-seven persons living in the area known as Fawn Grove sent a petition; To the honorable Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the County of York and the State of Pennsylvania: The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Fawn Grove, Township of Fawn, County of York and State of Pennsylvania respectfully showeth that our petitioners labor under great inconveniences for want of proper authority to control stock running at large in the village and for making and keeping in repair proper sidewalks, also a desire on their part to improve their condition generally; our petitioners therefore humbly pray the Court to grant a charter of incorporation for a borough to be called the Borough of Fawn Grove, of which the draft accompanying this petition will more fully show which is made part of here of the number of inhabitants within the surveyed territory is one hundred and fifty, and we will ever pray.

John A. Hawkins
John B. Webb
J.D. Bradley
Oscar A. Herbert
Samuel H.King
Bradford Hawkins
B.F. Morris
William Bargar
T.H. Wright
Thomas Webb
William J. Herbert
W.R. Webb
Jacob Matthews
Arch Webb

Henry S. Merryman
Jesse Webb
Charles F. Brooks
William A. Ramsey
Thomas H. Herbert
Jacob Miller
W.R. Almoney
Lewis Wickers
David E. Webb
William R. Jones
J.W. Charlton
Asa Jones
Andrew Scott

The petition was laid before the Grand Jury, and granted on the tenth of October, 1881. The survey was made by John S. McElwain. The first Burgess was Dr. John Hawkins, who served one year. T. H. Wright was elected in 1883, and re-elected the next year, with Jason Bradley, Asa Jones, H. S. Merryman, William A. Webb and William E. Brooks as Councilmen.