"To provide rail service for New Holland (Saginaw), Liverpool (Manchester) and Starview, officials of the York and Cumberland Railroad plotted a station roughly midway between Emigsville and the river. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, the station was named Mount Campbell in honor of Thomas Campbell, a York lawyer who had been instrumental in urging rail completion to Harrisburg."

"The first businessman to realize the possibilities of locating near the new railroad was Adam Wolf of New Holland. He purchased a parcel of ground from Henry Hoff and constructed a store and warehouse....Of the three Wolf sons, George H. soon came to be the one to devote his energies to the young business and new village.... Appointed stationmaster for the railroad in 1852, he also served as the first postmaster in town." (See Wolf Organization history video.)

"During those early years the town suffered through some confusion of names. The railway station had first been called Mount Campbell but when the post office was established, in July 1852, it carried the name Mount Wolf....About the time the railroad changed the station’s name to Mount Wolf, the United States postal authorities assigned the name Mount Campbell to their office....When George H. Wolf was reappointed postmaster, in July 1861, the name changed again, finally, to Mount Wolf.... The speculation that the town was named for Pennsylvania Governor George Wolf is farfetched. The Governor served in the 1830’s and had no relationship whatever with the Adam Wolf family."

"On the peaceful Sunday morning of June 28, 1863, the quit village of Mount Wolf experienced it’s first and only encounter with an armed foe... Major General Jubal Early of the Confederate Army arrived in the city of York... A battalion was dispatched to the north of York, which halted for a time in Manchester and then moved into Mount Wolf. While in Mount Wolf the Confederates entered George H. Wolf store...The Confederates took the goods from Wolf, paid for them in Confederate currency and continued toward the road bridges spanning the Conewago." Union map Confederate map

"By 1885, Mount Wolf had grown into a town of nearly fifty dwelling houses and had a population of about 200 people (see map)". In the 1890’s, a number of businesses started including Diehl’s Furniture and Undertaking. Of course the area's natural resources, live stock, crops and lumber continued to bring income. "Two months before the turn of the century, the Mount Wolf Furniture Company was incorporated with a capital investment of $18,000"...Also that same month, the Mount Wolf Shirt Company was founded. Then in 1904, the Pennsylvania Wire Cloth Company was incorporated... The business boom at the turn of the century had brought growth and prosperity to Mount Wolf at a rate unmatched by any of the older and larger towns between York and the Susquehanna River."

Mt (Campbell) Wolf Station	Wolf's 1856 Home	Wolf's Lumber & Supply

Deihl's Furniture and Funeral Home	Horse & Cattle Farms	Wire Cloth Factory

Mt Wolf Furniture Company / Bern Haven Fabics