Swatara Gap

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Swatara Gap
View of Swatara Gap and Swatara Creek from the Waterville Bridge
Elevation433 ft (132 m)[1]
Traversed by PA 72, I-81
RangeBlue Mountain
Coordinates40°28′43″N 76°31′44″W / 40.47861°N 76.52889°W / 40.47861; -76.52889
Swatara Gap is located in Pennsylvania
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 

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References

  1. ^ "Swatara Gap". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Swatara State Park". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Wildlife," Swatara Watershed Association, 2024
  5. ^ 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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