Photograph- Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
Port of Lancaster. The Conestoga Navigation Company, incorporated 1825, constructed on Conestoga Creek, from lancaster to the Susquehanna River, 9 locks and dams which wer used for slackwater navigation for about 40 years. A rock fill crib dam across the river made possible cargo exchanges with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal located on the west shore.
Photograph- Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
Port of Lancaster. The Conestoga Navigation Company, incorporated 1825, constructed on Conestoga Creek, from lancaster to the Susquehanna River, 9 locks and dams which wer used for slackwater navigation for about 40 years. A rock fill crib dam across the river made possible cargo exchanges with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal located on the west shore.
Description
Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
Port of Lancaster. The Conestoga Navigation Company, incorporated 1825, constructed on Conestoga Creek, from lancaster to the Susquehanna River, 9 locks and dams which wer used for slackwater navigation for about 40 years. A rock fill crib dam across the river made possible cargo exchanges with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal located on the west shore.
Photograph- This shows the only breakdown that endagesrs the west wall. The prison is filled with rubble stone, fortunately, or flooding would have washed too much away from the eastern portions still standing. The old trolley pylons still stand just southeast of the lock. It is a vital part of Lancaster's history using water to get to down river markets. Lock Number 1 of Conestoga Naviagation Company on the Conestoga River.
Photograph- This shows the only breakdown that endagesrs the west wall. The prison is filled with rubble stone, fortunately, or flooding would have washed too much away from the eastern portions still standing. The old trolley pylons still stand just southeast of the lock. It is a vital part of Lancaster's history using water to get to down river markets. Lock Number 1 of Conestoga Naviagation Company on the Conestoga River.
Description
This shows the only breakdown that endagesrs the west wall. The prison is filled with rubble stone, fortunately, or flooding would have washed too much away from the eastern portions still standing. The old trolley pylons still stand just southeast of the lock. It is a vital part of Lancaster's history using water to get to down river markets. Lock Number 1 of Conestoga Naviagation Company on the Conestoga River.
Photograph- This is the other standing portion of the East Wall of Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company canal south of Lancaster on the Conestoga River to Safe Harbor.
Photograph- This is the other standing portion of the East Wall of Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company canal south of Lancaster on the Conestoga River to Safe Harbor.
Description
This is the other standing portion of the East Wall of Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company canal south of Lancaster on the Conestoga River to Safe Harbor.
Photograph- This is the boat entrance to the lock and the beginning of the over 100 foot long west wall - all of which seems to be standing except where it is tumbled partely near the lock in the last picture (1-06-04-69). West wall may extend 200 feet. Canal boats were long and narrow, but the lock is really still a good example of the canal works.
Photograph- This is the boat entrance to the lock and the beginning of the over 100 foot long west wall - all of which seems to be standing except where it is tumbled partely near the lock in the last picture (1-06-04-69). West wall may extend 200 feet. Canal boats were long and narrow, but the lock is really still a good example of the canal works.
Description
This is the boat entrance to the lock and the beginning of the over 100 foot long west wall - all of which seems to be standing except where it is tumbled partely near the lock in the last picture (1-06-04-69). West wall may extend 200 feet. Canal boats were long and narrow, but the lock is really still a good example of the canal works.
Photograph- The north gate - east side showing the lock gate groove in the rocks and opposite on west wall of over 100 feet the matching groove and hardware of the gate. This was Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company on the Conestoga River.
Photograph- The north gate - east side showing the lock gate groove in the rocks and opposite on west wall of over 100 feet the matching groove and hardware of the gate. This was Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company on the Conestoga River.
Description
The north gate - east side showing the lock gate groove in the rocks and opposite on west wall of over 100 feet the matching groove and hardware of the gate. This was Lock Number 1 of the Conestoga Navigation Company on the Conestoga River.
Reproduction of the Conestoga Navigation Company Map
Description
Reproduction of the Conestoga Navigation Company Map, showing early canal and locks along the Conestoga River from Lancaster to the Susquehanna River at Safe Harbor, circa 1840. The water power at each lock is noted, as well as daily water flow. Also shown are Lancaster, Millerstown, Indian Town, Safe Harbor, Turkey Hill, the names of the waterways, railroad, roads, and Lancaster City Water Works.
Conestoga Navigation Company and Related Materials Collection (MG0270)
George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650
George Steinman Papers, Series 2 (MG0184_S02) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6c7e11c6-f3ca-469c-891a-145832196710
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Other Numbers
MG-184, Series 2
Other Number
MG-184, Series 2, Folder 43, Insert 1, Item 1
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Added to database 25 March 2024.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Page 8: Horse and wagon with a group of people, "Direct for Manheim"; Railroad bridge over the Conestoga Creek, June 1901; House in Manheim; Group of women playing bridge, "Bridge, Long porch, August 5, 1901"; Ann C. Witmer home, December 1900; Man driving a horse and wagon for Champion Blower and Forge, possibly on North Duke Street, Lancaster.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1900 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
