Conewago Falls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a historic river barrier 12 miles (19 km) below and south of Harrisburg at a wide spot (8,000 feet (2,400 m)), where the river drops 19 feet (5.8 m) in 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) 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 reservoir along the west side of the island.
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| - Conewago Falls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a historic river barrier 12 miles (19 km) below and south of Harrisburg at a wide spot (8,000 feet (2,400 m)), where the river drops 19 feet (5.8 m) in 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) 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 reservoir along the west side of the island. (en)
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| - Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
- Hydroelectric plant
- List of dams and reservoirs of the Susquehanna River
- Pennsylvania
- United States
- Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- List of historic mechanical engineering landmarks
- Crossings of the Susquehanna River
- Susquehanna River
- Dam
- Susquehannock
- Lenape
- Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
- Dams in Pennsylvania
- Dams on the Susquehanna River
- Run-of-the-river power stations
- Hydroelectric power plants in Pennsylvania
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
- Wright's Ferry
- Kaplan turbine
- Harrisburg
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Iroquois
- Hydraulic head
- Chesapeake Bay
- United States power company dams
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Landforms of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Susquehanna River
- York County, Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in York County, Pennsylvania
- Energy infrastructure completed in 1904
- Waterfalls of Pennsylvania
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- I Squared Capital
- Dams completed in 1904
- York Haven, Pennsylvania
- York Haven Dam
- Three Mile Island
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| - Conewago Falls in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a historic river barrier 12 miles (19 km) below and south of Harrisburg at a wide spot (8,000 feet (2,400 m)), where the river drops 19 feet (5.8 m) in 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) 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 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 (and later, Iroquois and Lenape) 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. (en)
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