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American shad in the Susquehanna River Basin : a three-hundred-year history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8220

Author: Gerstell, Richard.

Date of Publication: c 1998.

Call Number: 333.956 G383

Responsibility: 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

Channeling through time : Landscape evolution, land use change, and stream restoration in the Lower Susquehanna Basin

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12526

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 551.483 C458

Responsibility: Trip leaders: Dorothy Merrits, Robert Walter & Andrew de Wet.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Franklin & Marshall College]

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: 88, 20 p. ill. maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene Fall 2003 Field trip Guidebook..17-19 October 2003", hosted by Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Subjects: Stream conservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Stream ecology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Conestoga River - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Little Conestoga Creek - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna River - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Millers Run - Pennsylvania - East Hempfield Twp.

Additional Corporate Author: Southeastern (Pa.) Friends of the Pleistocene.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 551.483 C458

Electric power from the Susquehanna River

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Corporate Author: McCall Ferry Power Company.

Date of Publication: 1907.

Call Number: 621.3 M121

Corporate Author: McCall Ferry Power Company.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: The Company

Date of Publication: 1907.

Physical Description: [26 p.] illus.

Summary: 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.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Water & Power Company.; McCall Ferry Power Company.; Power plants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Dams - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Susquehanna River.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 621.3 M121

Susquehana River Water Trail in lower Section (Pennsylvania) : a paddler's map & guide to the scenic Susquehanna River from the Harrisburg are to the Maxon-Dixon Line

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Call Number: 974.80091 502

Physical Description: 3 maps in folder : ill. ; 41 x 30 cm. unfolded.

Notes: Includes text.

Subjects: Susquehanna River - Maps.; Pennsylvania - Rivers - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.80091 502

Lancaster County communities along the Susquehanna River : Coneqago Creek to Turkey Hill : Turkey Hill to the Mason- Dixon Line

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17658

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 974.815 L224 v. 108

Responsibility: information gathered by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: p. [100 -101].

Series: In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 108, no. 3 (Fall 2006).

Subjects: Cities and towns - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna River.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.815 L224 v. 108

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

Responsibility: 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

Rival ferries over the Susquehanna in 1787--Wright's and Anderson's

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4054

Author: Prowell, George Reeser,

Date of Publication: 1923

Author: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928. Title: Rival ferries over the Susquehanna in 1787--Wright's and Anderson's / by Geo. R. Prowell, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ferries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Susquehanna River. Wright's Ferry (Columbia, Pa.)--History. Anderson's Ferry

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Responsibility: by Geo. R. Prowell, Esq.

Author: Prowell, George Reeser,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1923

Physical Description: 143-144 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 8

Subjects: Ferries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna River.; Wright's Ferry (Columbia, Pa.) - History.; Anderson's Ferry (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 8 (1923), p. 143-144Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27

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Susquehanna, river of dreams

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9841

Author: Stranahan, Susan Q.

Date of Publication: c1993.

Call Number: 974.80091 S897

Responsibility: 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

Petroglyphs <rock carvings> in the Susquehanna River near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3909

Author: Cadzow, Donald A.

Date of Publication: 1934.

Call Number: 571.73 C126

Responsibility: [by] Donald A. Cadzow ...

Author: Cadzow, Donald A.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Date of Publication: 1934.

Physical Description: 59 p. illus., plates, map (1 fold.) 23 cm.

Series: Publications of Pennsylvania Historical Commission. vol. III; Safe Harbor report, no. 1

Notes: Notes and bibliography: p. 52-59.

Contents: Chapters: Walnut Island group -- Big and Little Indian Rocks -- Comparative interpretation of symbols of Big and Little Indian Rocks-- Conclusions

Subjects: Petroglyphs.; Picture writings.; Pennsylvania - Antiquities.; Susquehanna River.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 571.73 C126

History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union, and Snyder : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8536

Date of Publication: 1886.

Call Number: 974.84 H673 v. 1; 974.84 H673 v. 2

Responsibility: edited by F. Ellis and A.N. Hungerford.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Everts, Peck & Richards,

Date of Publication: 1886.

Physical Description: 2 v., [27] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: v. 1. General history -- Mifflin County -- Juniata County. v. 2. Perry County -- Union County -- Snyder County.

Subjects: Susquehanna Valley (Pa.) - History.; Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.; Mifflin County (Pa.) - History.; Mifflin County (Pa.) - Biography.; Juniata County (Pa.) - History.; Juniata County (Pa.) - Biography.; Perry County (Pa.) - History.; Perry County (Pa.) - Biography.; Union County (Pa.) - History.; Union County (Pa.) - Biography.; Snyder County (Pa.) - History.; Snyder County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Ellis, Franklin,; Hungerford, Austin N.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.84 H673 v. 1; 974.84 H673 v. 2

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