Official name Wrightsville Dam Operator(s) defunct Length ~5,000 feet Opened 1840 Impound Susquehanna River | Opening date 1840 Impounds Susquehanna River Height 3.05 m Construction began 1840 | |
Location Lancaster / York counties, Pennsylvania, USA | ||
The Wrightsville Dam was a 19th-century dam on the lower Susquehanna River between Wrightsville and Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Map of Wrightsville Dam, Montpelier, VT 05602, USA
The low-head dam was constructed in 1840 to impound the waters of the Susquehanna to provide a slackwater pool to allow the safe passage of canal boats from the Pennsylvania Canal on the Columbia (Lancaster County) side across the mile-wide rocky river to the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal on the Wrightsville (York County) side.
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