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(Redirected from Wrightsville (Columbia) Dam (1840)) This article is about the dam in Pennsylvania. For the dam in Vermont, see Wrightsville Reservoir. Dam in Pennsylvania, USA
Wrightsville dam
Official nameWrightsville Dam
LocationLancaster / York counties, Pennsylvania, USA
Construction began1840
Opening date1840
Operator(s)defunct
Dam and spillways
ImpoundsSusquehanna River
Height10 feet
Length~5,000 feet

The Wrightsville Dam was a 19th-century dam on the lower Susquehanna River between Wrightsville and Columbia, Pennsylvania.

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.

See also

References

  1. McClure, James, Where exactly is the Susquehanna River's Holtwood Dam?, York Town Square blog, York Daily Record, Retrieved 2008-10-14.

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