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A great variety of boats traveled the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal. Fast-moving packet boats, which carried passengers and were pulled by horses, sometimes at a trot, always had the right of way when passing through the lock. Slower freight . . . — — Map (db m171561) HM
Small settlements grew up around the canal, many of the inhabitants either working for the canal company or providing goods and services to local boatmen and their passengers. An 1898 survey of the area listed five existing buildings at Lock 15: a . . . — — Map (db m171281) HM
A lock acts as a step in the canal, allowing boats to be raised or lowered over changes in elevation. 29 lift locks along the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal raised boats a total of 231 feet from Havre de Grace, Maryland, to Wrightsville, . . . — — Map (db m171282) HM
North America's vast network of rivers provided Native Americans and European settlers alike with their earliest transportation routes. Early in the nineteenth century with overland routes only crudely developed and railroads not yet spanning the . . . — — Map (db m171559) HM
The carving at the bottom of the pole is a
representation of the mythical American
Indian creature Dsonoquo with a baby, a
traditional totem pole motif.
The second level stands for a beaver, an
animal once common along the
Susquehanna . . . — — Map (db m170967) HM
A memorial to the Indians who formerly dwelt in the vicinity
Designed and built by John Edward Vandersloot who named it after a nearby fishing rock on the face of which the Indians had carved footholds
The Pennsylvania Water and Power . . . — — Map (db m170968) HM
I entreat all who pass this way to safely guard and preserve these former possessions of, and monuments to, an ancient Indian people.
John Edward Vandersloot, owner and builder — — Map (db m170934) HM
People arrived in the Susquehanna Valley near the end of the last Ice Age, more than
12,000 years ago. They lived a nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering foods. The
domestication of plants around 1000 A.D. enabled native peoples to live in . . . — — Map (db m170969) HM
Chartered by Pennsylvania, 1835; run by the canal company, 1840-1872, and the Reading Railroad till 1894. Followed the river for 45 miles below Columbia. — — Map (db m5849) HM
Now housing the Tucquan Club, the nearby stone building was originally a warehouse for deposit and shipping on the canal. Masonry fragments and a portion of the canal-bed may be seen nearby. — — Map (db m5850) HM
Lower Section - York Haven to Safe Harbor
PFBC Wrightsville Access
The Susquehanna River is an American treasure reflecting the places and people of the Pennsylvania heartland. Enjoy your trip on the Susquehanna River Water Trail - an . . . — — Map (db m169335) HM
The Susquehanna River's islands, wetlands, flood plain, and woodlands are unique
habitats that serve as a haven to rare plant and bird species. Over the centuries,
however, human impacts have harmed these sensitive areas.
This pristine area, . . . — — Map (db m170357) HM
Site of York Furnace Bridge, last of the wooden bridges to be erected across the Susquehanna between Harrisburg and tidewater. The bridge was built by Black & Huber in 1856. During construction four spans of the section between Bair Island and the . . . — — Map (db m173456) HM