Pequea is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

that is located in Martic Township in

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, United States. It is situated where Route 324 ends at the

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, twelve miles south of

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Early days

Sometime around 1877, Frederick Shoff and Paul Heine began turning Pequea, then more commonly known as Shoff's P.O., into a resort town, when the

Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad The Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad (C&PD) was a railroad that operated in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It operated a main line between Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Port Deposit, Maryland, generally along th ...

began carrying passengers to the area. Shoff owned a sawmill and lumber yard and managed the York Furnace Power company.''Susquehanna pastimes at the River View Hotel in Pequea.''
August 10, 2021.

Riverview Hotel

Between 1902 and 1903, Shoff built in the three-story, seventy-five-bedroom Riverview Hotel on the bank of the Susquehanna and then sold it to Heine in 1904. The hotel also had a dining room, banquet hall, summer garden, tennis courts, croquet courts, swings with canopies, and a miniature railway to York Furnace that used a steam locomotive that had been manufactured by Timothy Cagney and his brothers David and John.

Geography

The

Pequea Creek Pequea Creek ( ; ) is a tributary of the Susquehanna River that runs for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 from the eastern border of Lancaster County and ...

empties into the river in Pequea, which is pronounced "Peckway." The ZIP code is 17565. Pequea has a hot-summer

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(''Dfa'') and average monthly temperatures range from 31.0 °F in January to 75.4 °F in July. The

hardiness zone A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants. In some systems other statistics are included in the calculations. The original and most widely ...

is 7a.

Gallery

File:Shoff’s P.O. on an 1899 map of Martic Township.webp, Shoff's P.O. on 1899 map of Martic Township File:River View Hotel in Pequea, Martic Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.webp, River View Hotel, c. 1910 File:Miniature railroad between Pequea and York Furnace (L. B. Herr Print. Postmarked August 2, 1910, Pequea Creek).jpg, Miniature railroad between Pequea and York Furnace, c. 1910

References

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Early days

Riverview Hotel

Geography

See also

Gallery

References