Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, November 5, 1920, Vol. 24: Rafting on the Susquehanna; Minutes of the November Meeting; No. 9
Rafting on the Susquehanna began as a steady business Within the first decade of our existence as a nation, and gradually grew to very large propor tions for 60 to 70 years and then gradually slackened for a decade or more and finally ceased altogether in about 1890, after which the sight of a raft or ark passing below Marietta was a great rarity.
The period of its great prosperity was from 1790 to 1870 and it lasted entirely just about 100 years.
The story of it is interesting and rather a romantic one. Its pursuit called into action a class of rugged, hardy daring men, who, like the old pioneers in the early days in Pennsylvania, these men were also pioneers into the entry into the forests primeval that clad the hills of the Susquehanna along both the east and west branches and reached northward even to and across the southern border line of the state of New York.
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