News Articles and Ephemera
Title: | Food source or free way? Settlers disputed river use |
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Author: | Kennedy, Joseph S. |
Source: | Philadelphia Inquirer |
Date: | 5/16/1999 |
Folder/Item #: | Schuylkill River (2) from 1987; 10 |
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Abstract: | Competition in colonial times between fisherman and riverboat men as to freedom of passage on the river; former’s trap got in the way |