Pequea, Pennsylvania

Pequea is an unincorporated community located in Martic Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is where Route 324 ends at the Susquehanna River, twelve miles south of Lancaster. 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.[2] The hardiness zone is 7a.

For the township named Pequea, see Pequea Township, Pennsylvania.
Pequea, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Pequea is located in Pennsylvania
Pequea
Pequea
Location within the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Pequea is located in the United States
Pequea
Pequea
Pequea (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°53′17″N 76°22′02″W
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyLancaster
TownshipMartic
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
17565
Area code717
GNIS feature ID1183575[1]

Early days
Shoff’s P.O. on an 1899 map of Martic Township

Frederick Shoff and Paul Heine started around 1877 to turn 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.[3]

Riverview Hotel
River View Hotel, ca 1910
Miniature railroad between Pequea and York Furnace, ca 1910

Frederick Shoff built in 1902/03 the three-story Riverview Hotel with 75 bedrooms on the bank of the Susquehanna and sold it to Heine in 1904. The hotel boasted a dining room, banquet hall, summer garden, tennis courts, croquet courts, and swings with canopies and even a miniature railway to York Furnace using a steam locomotive made by Timothy Cagney and his brothers David and John.[3]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pequea, Pennsylvania
  2. "PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U". prism.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  3. Susquehanna pastimes at the River View Hotel in Pequea. August 10, 2021.


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