 A monument was erected on the spot in 1925 by The Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Lancaster County Historical Society.Also called the Boro, Borough of Washington or Washingtonboro in the past, this small Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, community was settled in 1810 and incorporated in 1827.It was a center of river trade and river jobs, as it is located near the site of the first colonial era animal powered ferry across the lower Susquehanna River Wright's Ferry between present-day Columbia and Wrightsville, on the west bank in York County, Pennsylvania.