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Susquehanna River company history timeline

1801

These deeps first appeared on Latrobe’s map, derived from his 1801 survey.

1804

On the hill which overlooks the mill stands Rock Run House, a majestic 14 room stone mansion built in 1804 by John Carter, a partner of John Stump in the Rock Run Mill.

1805

By 1805, the Susquehanna Canal was opened, connecting the Pennsylvania and Maryland border with Port Deposit below Smith Falls.

1806

Snyder served as Pennsylvania’s third governor from 1797 to 1806.

Broome county was created in 1806 and named for the American Revolutionary leader John Broome.

1816

Five years after running the Conewago Falls on his maiden voyage, Michael Cryder had paid all his debts and moved to Ohio, near Chillicothe, where he remained until his death in 1816.

1819

On December 23, 1792, a petition was presented to the senate by Simon Snyder (1759–1819) and Anthony Selin (17??–1792) to enable them to maintain a dam across Penns Creek with a height of two and a half feet.

1822

What did the sale of this much wheat in 1822 mean to the people of Penns Valley? One hundred eighty thousand bushels of wheat made 38,571 barrels of flour, which sold for $256,111.

1833

Between the 18th and 23rd of May in 1833, 2,688 arks and 3,480 rafts floated past Danville.

1836

Between the mill and the river runs a section of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, which was built in 1836.

1861

About 1772, Michael Cryder (1742–1861), a German miller from Lancaster County, moved his family to Standing Stone, today Huntingdon borough in Huntingdon County, and built a gristmill on a stream.

1904

When the York Haven dam was completed in 1904, it was the third largest in the world.

1909

During the construction of the Holtwood dam in 1909 some of the deep were exposed, prompting more extensive studies of the depths of all 6 of the Susquehanna Deeps.

1917

It was reported that the last commercial raft to travel the Susquehanna River did so in 1917 and sold to a lumber mill in Marietta, Pennsylvania.

Mathews, E. B. (1917). Submerged “deeps” in the Susquehanna River.

1933

Stose, G. W., & Jonas, A. J. (1933). Geology and mineral resources of the Middletown quadrangle, Pennsylvania.

1947

Harrisburg:Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1947.

2006

Established by Congress in 2006, the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail (the nation’s first historic water trail) honors Captain Smith’s journey.

21, 2006 on behalf of Maryland’s citizens, Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. accepted the gift of Roberts Island in Harford County from Exelon Corporation, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities.

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