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.
length (km)
1524.0
building start year
1840-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
height (cm)
3.048
location
Pennsylvania, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, York County Pennsylvania
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