A snapshot evaluation of stream environmental quality in the Little Conestoga Creek Basin, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a cooperative project between the residents of Lancaster County, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and the U.S. Geological Survey
"Canals came at that critical period when demands of transportation far superseded the ability of wagons or river rafts to meet them, and before railroads were sufficiently advanced to "fill the bill." They were snake like streams of water which were made parallel to the river. The Susquehanna alone had some 400 miles of canals along it's shores , while another 400 miles followed the banks of it's tributaries." [from the book's forward]Contents include notes on canal construction, boat details and design, canal nomenclature, and discussion of specific waterways : Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, Conestoga Navigation, Codorus Navigation, the Central Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (Union Canal and Wisconisco Canal), the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, the Western Branch, and the North Branch.This book is richly illustrated, has a glossary of canal terms, and an index of pictures by town name.
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.
Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface
Contributions to the Indian history of the lower Susquehanna Valley : the annual report of the Committee on Archaeology of the Dauphin County Historical Society
A 1904 pamphlet describing the planned building of the McCall Ferry Dam on the lower Susquehanna. It was later named the Holtwood Dam. Photos show the area before the dam's completion.
