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What's in a name?

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13435
Author
Huber, Elaine
Date of Publication
1985.
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by Elaine Huber.
Author
Huber, Elaine
Place of Publication
Carlisle, Pa
Publisher
Cumberland County Hisorical Society,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
p. 43-45 ; 23 cm.
Summary
Journal article that gives the history of the naming of present day Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River.
Subjects
Cookson, Thomas.
Three Mile Island (Susquehanna River)
Elliot's Island (Susquehanna River)
Musser's Island (Susquehanna River)
Nissley's Island (Susquehanna River)
Greenawalt's Island (Susquehanna River)
Smith's Island (Susquehanna River)
Conewago Island (Susquehanna River)
Shireman's Island (Susquehanna River)
Duffy's Island (Susquehanna River)
Contained In
Cumberland County History. Volume 2, number 1 (Summer 1985), p. 43-45Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article974.843 C969
Websites
https://gardnerlibrary.org/sites/default/files/vol02n1.pdf#page=45
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Susquehanna, river of dreams

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Author
Stranahan, Susan Q.
Date of Publication
c1993.
Call Number
974.80091 S897
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Susan Q. Stranahan.
ISBN
0801846021 (alk. paper)
Author
Stranahan, Susan Q.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Contents
Chapters : Geology - "Nature's handiwork on display" / Economic Development - "A race for the river!" / Logging - "The trees came down like tall grass" / Floods - "We are going to try to beat the river" / Pollution - "A trifling inconvenience" / Nuclear Development - "There is absolutely no danger" / Farming - "Stewards of this garden" / Shad Restoration - "You can't be half-hearted" / The River and the Bay - "A long-term investment"
Summary
"Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers - ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its ecosystem, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary", the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance. Stranahan's vivid account of her experiences on the Susquehanna, including interviews with the colorful and engaging people she met along its shores, captures the river's continuing ability to fire the imagination, to stir the senses, to inspire dreams.Stranahan describes how canal builders, loggers, miners, and industrialists nearly destroyed the source of their wealth. And she tells of the river's frequent retaliation with historic, rampaging floods. Today, the Susquehanna is a study in contrasts: clean and healthy again along much of its length, in a few places still so polluted that nothing can survive. New threats from urbanization, modern agriculture, and nuclear power make the future uncertain. But Stranahan finds reasons for optimism." [from Goodreads]
Subjects
Environmental protection - Susquehanna River.
Natural history - Susquehanna River.
Water quality - Susquehanna River.
Susquehanna River.
Susquehanna River Valley.
Rivers
Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80091 S897
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American shad in the Susquehanna River Basin : a three-hundred-year history

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Author
Gerstell, Richard.
Date of Publication
c 1998.
Call Number
333.956 G383
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Richard Gerstell.
ISBN
0271018054 (alk. paper)
0271018062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author
Gerstell, Richard.
Place of Publication
University Park, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c 1998.
Physical Description
217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"A Keystone book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Shad fisheries - Susquehanna River Watershed.
American shad - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Shad fishing - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Fishery conservation - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
333.956 G383
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Contributions to the Indian history of the lower Susquehanna Valley : the annual report of the Committee on Archaeology of the Dauphin County Historical Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4875
Corporate Author
Historical Society of Dauphin County (Pa.). Committee on Archaeology.
Date of Publication
1898.
Call Number
974.8011 D343
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Historical Society of Dauphin County (Pa.). Committee on Archaeology.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Dauphin County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1898.
Physical Description
67 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Publications of the Dauphin County Historical Society
Notes
Cover title: The Indian history of the lower Susquehanna.
Subjects
Susquehanna Indians.
Archaeology - Susquehanna River Valley.
Indians of North America - Susquehanna River Valley.
Susquehanna River Valley.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 D343
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Naked contracts, spawning shad, and the politics of law : an historical analysis of an 1842 letter from Thaddeus Stevens to Reah Frazer

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10895
Author
Flowers, Lawrence Loftin
Call Number
923.2 S836f
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by Lawrence Loftin Flowers.
Author
Flowers, Lawrence Loftin
Physical Description
39 p. ; 28 cm.
Contents
Historical Context and Background : Thaddeus Stevens the Lawyer Reah Frazer, William Jenkins , and the famed Lancaster bar Pennsylvania's Canals , Internal Improvements and the politics of development : an overview Document Transcription Critical Analysis The Susquehanna Canal Company : A Dam Nuisance Thaddeus Stevens and Reah Frazer in Lancaster Conclusion Appendices
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus , - 1792-1868.
Frazer, Reah.
Susquehanna Canal Company.
Shad fisheries - Susquehanna River Watershed.
American Shad - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Shad fishing - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 S836f
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Hydro-electric plant and bridge spanning Susquehanna River three miles below Conowingo

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3313
Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Date of Publication
1927
HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT AND BRIDGE SPANNING SUSQUEHANNA RIVER 3 MILES BELOW CONOWINGO By D. F. MAGEE Many people know in a general way but few have stopped to consider that, within thirty-two miles as the crow flies and forty-five miles by good, hard, smooth roads, there has been built and now near
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HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT AND BRIDGESPANNING SUSQUEHANNA RIVER 3 MILES BELOW CONOWINGO
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by D. F. Magee.
Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
91-94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7
Subjects
Hydroelectric power plants - Maryland - Conowingo.
Conowingo Dam (Md.)
Susquehanna River.
Conowingo Reservoir (Md. and Pa.)
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 91-94Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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Native American waterbody and place names within the Susquehanna River Basin and surrounding subbasins

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Author
Runkle, Stephen A.
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
917.48 R942 CD
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Stephen A. Runkle.
Author
Runkle, Stephen A.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Susquehanna River Basin Commission,
Date of Publication
2003.
Physical Description
1 CD-ROM : col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series
Publication ; no. 229
Notes
Title from PDF t.p.
"September 2003."
This report is a compilation of the waterbodies and places in and around the Susquehanna River Basin that have names whose origins are directly linked to Native Americans.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Names, Indian - North America - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Names, Geographical - Susquehanna River Watershed.
Susquehanna River Watershed - Names.
Additional Corporate Author
Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Media
Call Number
917.48 R942 CD
Websites
http://www.srbc.net/docs/Native%20American%20Report.pdf
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Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, past and present

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19688
Date of Publication
[2013]
Call Number
974.8004 N278
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edited by David J. Minderhout.
ISBN
9781611484878 (cloth : alk. paper)
1611484871 (cloth : alk. paper)
161148488X (electronic)
9781611484885 (electronic)
Place of Publication
Lewisburg
Publisher
Bucknell University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc.,
Date of Publication
[2013]
Physical Description
xv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents
Native American prehistory in the Susquehanna River Valley / David J. Minderhout -- Pennsylvania's Native Americans: History timeline / David J. Minderhout -- A story in stone: The Susquehanna's rock art legacy / Paul A. Nevin -- Native Americans in the Susquehanna River region: 1550 to today / David J. Minderhout -- "Blood Quantum" and lenape tradition / Donald R. Repsher -- Our story, ourselves: Oral histories of contemporary Native Americans / David J. Minderhout, Andrea T. Frantz, and Jessica D. Dowsett -- Oral tradition of one family of Pennsylvania Seneca descendants / Gerald E. Dietz -- Kiiloona Ktaaptoonehna: Munsee language revitalization on the Susquehanna's North branch / Susan M. Taffe Reed -- Lenapeyok neki: Those are lenopes / Kenneth R. Hayden -- Native lands country park / David J. Minderhout -- Afterword / Ann N. Dapice.
Summary
"This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia. Combining archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, and the study of contemporary Native American issues, contributors describe what is known about the Native Americans from their earliest known presence in the valley to the contact era with Europeans. They also explore the subsequent consequences of that contact for Native peoples, including the removal, forced or voluntary, of many from the valley, in what became a chilling prototype for attempted genocide across the continent. Euro-American history asserted that there were no native people left in Pennsylvania (the center of the Susquehanna watershed) after the American Revolution. But with revived Native American cultural consciousness in the late twentieth century, Pennsylvanians of native ancestry began to take pride in and reclaim their heritage. This book also tells their stories, including efforts to revive Native cultures in the watershed, and Native perspectives on its ecological restoration. While focused on the Susquehanna River Valley, this collection also discusses topics of national significance for Native Americans and those interested in their cultures."--Publisher's website.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Susquehanna River Valley
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America
United States - Susquehanna River Valley.
History.
Additional Author
Minderhout, David Jay,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8004 N278
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Lancaster before history began

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13900
Author
Kinsey, W. Fred III.
Date of Publication
1998.
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by W. Fred Kinsey III.
Author
Kinsey, W. Fred III.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1998.
Physical Description
p. 142 - 171.
Notes
In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 99, no. 4 (Winter 1998).
Subjects
Indians of North America - Susquehanna River Valley
Susquehanna Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Susquehanna River Valley - Antiquities.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 99, number 4 (Winter 1998), p. 142-171Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.99
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The Susquehanna

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4301
Author
Carmer, Carl Lamson,
Date of Publication
[c1955]
Call Number
974.80091 C287
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Illustrated by Stow Wengenroth.
Author
Carmer, Carl Lamson,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Rinehart
Date of Publication
[c1955]
Physical Description
493 p. illus. 22 cm.
Series
Rivers of America
Notes
Includes bibliography.
Subjects
Susquehanna River.
Susquehanna River Valley.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80091 C287
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