Photograph- "Safe Harbor in distance" - view of Susquehanna River
Description
"Safe Harbor in distance" - view of Susquehanna River
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
Photograph- "Bridge in distance" - view of Susquehanna River near Safe Harbor
Description
"Bridge in distance" - view of Susquehanna River near Safe Harbor
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
Photograph- "River and islands" - view of Susquehanna River
Description
"River and islands" - view of Susquehanna River
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
Photograph- "Near Pequea E. Side" - view of railroad and Susquehanna River
Description
"Near Pequea E. Side" - view of railroad and Susquehanna River
Provenance
From glass plate negatives bought by Kevin Shue at Horst Auction. Photographer unknown, but most images are of the Warwick Township or Safe Harbor areas.
Peach Bottom Hotel near former Pennsylvania Railroad station - Lancaster County terminus of Peach Bottom ferry. Torn down or flooded when Conewingo Dam was built.
Provenance
From Museum Storage. Note on envelope: "received 5/9/74 from Chester Co. Archives".
Peach Bottom Hotel near former Pennsylvania Railroad station - Lancaster County terminus of Peach Bottom ferry. Torn down or flooded when Conewingo Dam was built.
Provenance
From Museum Storage. Note on envelope: "received 5/9/74 from Chester Co. Archives".
Photograph- Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
McCall's Ferry and Burr's Bridge. McCall's Ferry, originally Nelson's, was an early Susquehanna ferry operationg from 1740 to 1936. THere also in 1815 Theodore Burr, master bridge builder, erected a trussed timber arch bridge with a 360 foot span, the longest then known. Ice destoryed the bridge on March 3, 1818.
Photograph- Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
McCall's Ferry and Burr's Bridge. McCall's Ferry, originally Nelson's, was an early Susquehanna ferry operationg from 1740 to 1936. THere also in 1815 Theodore Burr, master bridge builder, erected a trussed timber arch bridge with a 360 foot span, the longest then known. Ice destoryed the bridge on March 3, 1818.
Description
Historic marker placed by Pennsylvania Water and Power Company near Safe Harbor.
McCall's Ferry and Burr's Bridge. McCall's Ferry, originally Nelson's, was an early Susquehanna ferry operationg from 1740 to 1936. THere also in 1815 Theodore Burr, master bridge builder, erected a trussed timber arch bridge with a 360 foot span, the longest then known. Ice destoryed the bridge on March 3, 1818.
