Swatara Gap
Swatara Gap is a water gap through Blue Mountain formed by the Swatara Creek in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. PA Route 72 as well as Interstate 81 pass through the gap. The Appalachian Trail passes through the gap over the Waterville Bridge in Swatara State Park.[2] The area was a fossil collecting site.[3] "Swatara" comes from a Susquehannock word, Swahadowry or Schaha-dawa, which means "where we feed on eels". Ancient Native Americans built dozens of eel-weirs, V-shaped rock barriers designed to funnel eels to facilitate capture, on the Susquehanna River and its tributaries.[4][5]: 184
- Appalachian Trail crossing Swatara Creek on the Waterville Bridge
See also
- Geology of Pennsylvania
References
- ^ "Swatara Gap". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Swatara State Park". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011.
- ^ Lehman, David; Pope, John K. (1989). "Upper Ordovician Tempestites from Swatara Gap, Pennsylvania: Depositional Processes Affecting the Sediments and Paleoecology of the Fossil Faunas". PALAIOS. 4 (6): 553–564. Bibcode:1989Palai...4..553L. doi:10.2307/3514745. JSTOR 3514745.
- ^ "Wildlife," Swatara Watershed Association, 2024
- ^ William Henry Egle, History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon: in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Biographical and Genealogical, Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883
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Gaps of the Appalachian Mountains
- Cumberland Narrows
- Brocks Gap
- Delaware Water Gap
- Gaps of the Allegheny
- Goshen Pass
- Hillsboro Gap
- James River Gorge
- Lehigh Gap
- Loysburg Gap
- Mechanicsburg Gap
- Moccasin Gap
- The Narrows
- Potomac Water Gap
- Reeds Gap
- Schuylkill Gap
- Swatara Gap
- Thoroughfare Gap
- Appalachian Gap
- Balsam Gap
- Brock Gap
- Buck Creek Gap
- Bull Gap
- Carter Notch
- Cowee Gap
- Craven Gap
- Crawford Notch
- Deals Gap
- Dixville Notch
- Evans Notch
- Franconia Notch
- Gillespie Gap
- Grafton Notch
- Grandmother Gap
- Granville Notch
- Hazen's Notch
- Hobart Gap
- Kinsman Notch
- Lincoln Gap
- Mahoosuc Notch
- Middlebury Gap
- Monterey Pass
- Newfound Gap
- Pinkham Notch
- Sherburne Pass
- Skinners Gap
- Smugglers Notch
- Soco Gap
- Stony Clove Notch
- Zealand Notch
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