Pequea is an unincorporated community that is located in Martic Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated where Route 324 ends at the Susquehanna River, twelve miles south of Lancaster.
Pequea, Pennsylvania | |
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  Pequea Location within the U.S. state of Pennsylvania  Pequea Pequea (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°53′17″N 76°22′02″W / 39.88806°N 76.36722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Lancaster |
| Township | Martic |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 17565 |
| Area code | 717 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1183575[1] |
Early days
editSometime 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 began carrying passengers to the area. Shoff owned a sawmill and lumber yard and managed the York Furnace Power company.[2]
Riverview Hotel
editBetween 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.[2]
Geography
editThe Pequea Creek empties into the river in Pequea, which is pronounced "Peckway." The ZIP code is 17565.
Pequea has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and average monthly temperatures range from 31.0 °F in January to 75.4 °F in July.[3] The hardiness zone is 7a.
See also
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Shoff's P.O. on 1899 map of Martic Township
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River View Hotel, c. 1910
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Miniature railroad between Pequea and York Furnace, c. 1910
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pequea, Pennsylvania
- ^ a b Susquehanna pastimes at the River View Hotel in Pequea. August 10, 2021.
- ^ "PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U". prism.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved July 14, 2021.