On June 28, 1863, Wrightsville looked across the Susquehanna River and watched Union militia burn its own covered bridge rather than let Confederate troops cross. It worked. The South never got closer to Harrisburg than this stretch of riverbank, and historians count it as a quiet turning point just days before Gettysburg.

The river is still the town's defining feature, just friendlier now. The current bridge carries Route 462 instead of soldiers, and a riverside walking trail runs along the bank where the old wooden bridge once stood, with the water and the hills across in Columbia providing the view.

It's a small riverfront borough with an outsized piece of history attached to it, which tends to come up whenever buyers ask what there is to do nearby. Core Partners Realty can walk you through what living along this stretch of the Susquehanna actually looks like.