The Little Schuylkill River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed April 1, 2011

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of the

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. It rises south of McAdoo Heights near Haddock,

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in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on top of Broad Mountain. It flows south, then southwest passing through the communities of Tamaqua and New Ringgold. The river joins the Schuylkill River near Port Clinton west of

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. The

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has designated several parts of the stream special

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stocking areas.

History of Name

The Little Schuylkill River was known as the Tamauguay Creek or River in the 18th and early to mid 19th centuries. This name derives from the Lenni

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word for “beaver” (tëmakwe or tamaqua) and also the Lenni Lenape method for using “hunter’s hints”Mahr, August C., PRACTICAL REASONS FOR ALGONKIAN INDIAN STREAM AND PLACE NAMES, THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 59(6): 365, November, 1959, p. 368 thus identifying it as the “place of the beavers”. As the land became settled by Europeans, this

tributary was then referred to as the Little Schuylkill River – Schuylkill coming from the Dutch language meaning “hidden river”.

Tributaries

* Indian Run * Rattling Run *

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* Locust Creek * Panther Creek * Wabash Creek * Owl Creek * Cold Run * Koenigs Creek * Brushy Run * Swamp Run * Rabbit Run * Still Creek * Pine Creek

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20110928231631/http://www.fish.state.pa.us/trout_repro.pdf *New Ringgold 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Department of the Interior, USGS

External links

U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
Rivers of Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Schuylkill River Rivers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-river-stub

History of Name

Tributaries

See also

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