For much of the 20th century, the Susquehanna River did something no river should ever have…
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Smith Tower Gatehouse: The Odd-Looking Castle Turret on the Enola Low Grade
It looks like a castle turret hiding in the woods—but it wasn’t built for knights or…
Pequea Magnetic Ore Mine: A Lost Industrial Giant in the Wilds of Horse Hollow
Hidden in a steep, wooded gorge along the Pequea Creek is one of Lancaster County’s strangest…
On This Day in 1985: Champagne Train Derails in Pequea
🍾 On This Day in 1985: Pequea’s River of Champagne 🚂 On the morning of October…
Pequea’s Fountain of Youth
💧 The Healing Waters of York Furnace Spring Hidden in the rolling hills of Martic Township,…
The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Pequea: The Great Champagne Spill of 1985
🚂🍾 The Great Pequea Champagne Spill of 1985 🍾🚂 There’s the right way, the wrong way,…
‘Colonel’ John Mead, enigmatic ‘Gentleman Bum’ of the River Hills, lost House Rock home found!
Adventure Alert: Uncovering the Secrets of Colonel John Mead's Rock Shelter! In the autumn of 2023,…
4,000-year-old emoji discovered on Susquehanna River island
If you think emojis are a fad, think again. This 😐 neutral face carved rock unearthed on…
The History of Martic Township as recorded in the ‘1875 Historical Atlas of Lancaster County’
According to the '1875 Historical Atlas of Lancaster County,' Martic Township was settled by an industrious…
Rediscover the almost-forgotten Pequea Magnetic Ore Mine deep in the heart of Horse Hollow
Deep in the heart of Horse Hollow, spanning both sides of the Pequea Creek lies a…
The forgotten winter tradition of ‘snowing the bridge’
Before cars, it was customary for the local farmer to snow a covered bridge after each…
A brief history of the Martic Township Park
Today Martic Township Park is a forest thick with trees. But you might be surprised to…
How did this Martic Forge property end up with 300 millstones? Learn the history of Flory’s Mill.
After years of driving past this brick wall with embedded millstones, I wondered two things. Why are…
Covering a wooden bridge has nothing to do with the horses that use them. Learn why when you visit Lancaster’s second-longest.
1,500 covered bridges use to cross the streams and rivers of Pennsylvania. Today 200 remain and…
Visit the ambitious Lancaster County engineering project that killed 200 men and cost half a billion dollars. Traverse the Enola Low-Grade Rail Trail.
The Enola Low-Grade Line was the engineering marvel of its day. More earth was moved in…
2,000 feet of dark passages. Unforgiving cold. Hungry cave rats. Discover Pequea’s dangerous spelunking underground.
Discover Pequea dangerous underground containing 2,000 feet of cold spelunking passageways.