Orrtanna, PA

Orrtanna is a census-designated place in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 183 residents. Orrtanna was established in 1885 around Orr Station, a stop on the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway. Orrtanna originally was known as Wortzville after George Wortz, a local businessman, but was changed to Orr Station and then Orr Glen. The Gettysburg district's Franklin Township Elementary School has an Orrtanna post office address, but is physically in the Cashtown CDP. The short version is that Orrtanna carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Orrtanna: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The community is primarily in the northeastern corner of Hamiltonban Township, with a small portion extending into the northwestern corner of Highland Township.