Friday, May 29, 2015

Columbia's "Dammed" Shad Wars


Construction of a 6½-foot dam across the Susquehanna at Columbia in 1839 led to the most vicious of our local shad wars. The water held back by the dam was channeled into the Pennsylvania Canal paralleling the river.
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