Pequea, Pennsylvania
{{short description|Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US}}
{{For|the township named Pequea|Pequea Township, Pennsylvania}}
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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.
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 began carrying passengers to the area. Shoff owned a sawmill and lumber yard and managed the York Furnace Power company.[https://unchartedlancaster.com/2021/08/10/susquehanna-pastimes-at-the-river-view-hotel-in-pequea/ 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 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.{{Cite web|title=PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U|url=https://prism.oregonstate.edu/explorer/|access-date=2021-07-14|website=prism.oregonstate.edu}} The hardiness zone is 7a.
See also
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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{{Geographic location
|Centre = Pequea
|North = Shenks Ferry
|Northeast = Martic Forge
|East = Mount Nebo
|Southeast = Erbs Mill, Tucquan
|South = Lower Chanceford Township, York County
|Southwest = York Furnace
|West = Goram
|Northwest = Shenks Ferry, York County
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania