Mervin S. Rutt, Sr. of Fairmount Homes passed away Thursday, November 16, 2023. He was born in Blue Ball, PA the son of John C. and Clara Stauffer Rutt and
HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Millersville Area Historical Society will host a slideshow on the historic water-powered mills of Lancaster County at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, in Millersville’s Municipal Center, 100
The section of the Conestoga upstream from the city of Lancaster often is called a âcreek.â Below the city, the waterway is called either a âcreekâ or a âriver.â
The Scribbler learned this by reading a new book, âThe Conestoga River: A History,â written by Donald Kautz and published by The History Press.
These designations make some sense because the beginning of the 60-mile-long Conestoga is narrow and shallow and creek-like, and the ending is wider and shallow and river-like.
But âcreekâ is an informal designation for any part of the Conestoga. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names officially determined that the Conestoga is a âriverâ in the early 1970s. So if you find the Conestoga referred to as a âcreekâ on more recent maps, you have found a mistake.