Category Archives: ferries

Benjamin Latrobe’s map of the lower Susquehanna River shows wild York and Lancaster county shores

Posted on April 28, 2011 by june lloyd

Latrobe thought the Turkey Hill rapids or falls “most formidible.” Benjamin Henry Latrobe has been called one of the fathers of American architecture, but his work surveying and mapping the Susquehanna River in 1801from Columbia, Pa. to Havre de Grace, … Continue reading →

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York County Deserter Sought

Posted on April 18, 2008 by june lloyd

It was April 1777. The Revolutionary War was not going well. Desertion was rampant. General Washington had said as much in a letter he wrote to his brother John on February 24. Click here to read that letter at the … Continue reading →

Posted in 1770s, Army, Chanceford Twp., clothing, deserters, ferries, Revolutionary War, soldiers, Susquehanna River, Universal York, York County | Leave a comment