Posted in 2018
In this post I will look at some general information about the Conestoga River. Hopefully you will find this interesting. The more time I spend photographing the river the more I come to realize that we have a tremendously beautiful natural resource right in our back yards....
This week I will highlight some of the non-covered bridges on the Conestoga River. I featured the covered bridges in an earlier post. I'm not going to attempt to document all of the bridges that cross the river but just a few that show a variety of...
No treatise of the Conestoga River would be complete without mentioning Rocky Springs Park. Rocky Springs played a major part in the social fabric of Lancaster City and County for nearly a century.
From 1829 through approximately 1857, the Conestoga Navigation Company operated a slackwater canal between Lancaster and Safe Harbor. Passengers and freight could board a barge at Reigart's Landing on South Prince Street and travel down the Conestoga to the Susquehanna. From there, the traffic crossed the Susquehanna...
In this post I will write about the covered bridges that span the Conestoga River.
Today I am going to cover the stretch of the river that borders the Lancaster County Park. This is the stretch that starts at the South
Duke street bridge, runs along the road through Williamson Park and loops up close to Chesapeake Street at the main entrance of...
I'm writing this blog to show the beauty and history of the Conestoga River waterway. But sometimes, in order to appreciate the beauty you have to be honest about the ugly. So with this post illuminate a serious threat that the river faces.
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The Conestoga Greenway trail follows the loop of the river around the Sunnyside Peninsula. It runs from South Conestoga Drive on the East around and down to the South Duke Street bridge...
"Bridgeport" is the local name for the place where two major arteries, the Old Philadelphia Pike (Rt 340) and Lincoln Highway East (Rt 462) converge to cross the Conestoga River and become East King Street, Lancaster. For the purposes of this discussion, I have chosen to divide...
