Loganville: The Town They Called Saddlebags

The first settlers who came to this corner of York County had a practical way of seeing the place. The town straddles both sides of a hill, and local tradition says early Pennsylvania Dutch settlers likened it to saddle bags. The official name came later, honoring Colonel Henry Logan, a prominent Pennsylvania politician of the early nineteenth century.

The land was surveyed and plotted in eighteen twenty by Robert Richie, with Robert Wilson serving as auctioneer and first postmaster. The borough incorporated from Springfield Township in eighteen fifty-two. By eighteen fifty-eight, musicians here had already formed the Loganville Cornet Band. By eighteen eighty the population had reached three hundred and twelve. The town is still small today, with a population of about fourteen hundred, and the hill that gave it its original name still divides it neatly in two.