Red Lion, PA Homes for Sale | Core Partners Realty

Red Lion built its name on cigars. For decades starting in the late 1800s, this York County borough was home to dozens of small cigar factories, and "Red Lion cigars" were shipped out across the country long before anyone thought of the town as a place to live rather than a place to work.

Most of those factories are gone now, but the brick rowhomes and sturdy little commercial blocks built up around them still define the borough's downtown — a tight grid of streets laid out at a human scale, the kind where errands double as a walk.

These days Red Lion is better known as a solid, affordable home base a short drive from York proper, with its own school district and a community that's kept its small-town routines. Core Partners Realty works with buyers looking for exactly that kind of settled, unpretentious place to land.

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The Lion Behind the Name

Our History

Long before the cigar factories, the borough was settled in 1852 and took its name from one of the town's first pubs, the Red Lion Tavern — a nod to the hometown pride that's stuck around ever since. Red Lion also built a name for itself nationwide in furniture manufacturing. Over the decades the borough's shops shifted toward kitchen cabinets and retail store fixtures, a trade that still shapes the local economy today. The Red Lion Borough Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, preserving the turn-of-the-century architecture that still lines its downtown streets.