Conewago Falls
Conewago Falls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a historic river barrier below and south of Harrisburg at a wide spot, where the river drops in along the lower Susquehanna River along either side of Three Mile Island. The falls between the west bank and the west side of the island were inundated-by-design years ago by construction of the York Haven Dam which, when it was completed in 1904, for a time became the third largest in the world. Today the Falls hides inside the Frederic Lake reservoir along the west side of the island.
The falls would often be portaged around by Native Americans with their elm bark canoes transiting between Susquehannock Amerindian towns at points upriver to the Oyster beds in Chesapeake Bay or vice versa. The Falls blocked riverine navigation on the Susquehanna River, and were one of the factors preventing barge or ship water transport from Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay.
