Central Market

The origin of center-city farm-to-market sales began for York in 1754. According to the Royal decree granting permission for the operation of York's first center square market.

The inhabitants of the town of York are become so numerous that they find it necessary to have a public market or the better supplying and accommodating them with goods and wholesome provisions under proper regulations. The proprietor upon the humble request of the inhabitants of York grants and ordains that they and their successors shall and may forever thereafter hold and keep within the town, in every week of the year, two market days, the one on Wednesday and the other on Saturday.

Central Market York itself was constructed in 1888 at a cost of $45,000. It was designed by noted local architect J.A. Dempwolf and was one of the first structures in York to contain indoor plumbing. The building's massive timbers were raised in place by shipwrights in town from the Port of Baltimore.

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