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The Essence of the
by Tom Janukowicz
photo-Tom Janukowicz
The Yellow Breeches is a beautiful, mystical creek, which
by its own design causes one to react on an almost spiritual
level. Long pools and gentle riffles serve as natural "holds" for
Brook Trout, Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout.
The Yellow Breeches, Cumberland and York counties, is a
tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania.
There are many opinions and myths about how the Yellow
Breeches got its name. The earliest is that Native Americans
washed their buckskin clothing in the water, which stained
it with yellow coloring. Another is that while the British
soldiers were crossing, they washed their "britches" in the
limestone stained water, and it changed the color of their
pants from white to yellow-hence Yellow Breeches. The
one that probably makes the most sense is that the only
Native American who lived on the creek and left his "mark"
in history was Peter Chartier (1700-1759). He was the son
of a French Canadian, Martin Chartier, and a Shawnee
woman. Peter Chartier established a trading post about
1 mile north of the Yellow Breeches along the Susquehanna
River. Chartier surveyed his land in 1740 and confirmed
the presence of many Yellow Beech trees, which easily could
have been distorted to Yellow Breeches.
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Shawnee and Susquehannock tribes inhabited the Yellow
Breeches and were first recorded in the 1730s by settlers.
The settlers' lives where shaped by farming, milling and
the building of dams. Today, it's rather ironic that the creek
makes us feel blissful and peaceful. Just 200 years ago, this
same creek bank was used to guide slaves to Underground
Railroad safety in Boiling Springs.
The Native Americans used the Yellow Breeches for fishing
and irrigation. Although there were no trout present at that
time, they had a bounty of pike, bass, shad and panfish. With
a land grant to William Penn by King Charles II of England
as repayment of debt, Cumberland County's origins can be
traced back to 1681. By the early 1730s, a group of Scots-Irish
immigrants were kicked out of Scotland by King George II
and forced to go to Ireland only to find that in Ireland things
were worse. Their only hope was a trek to the New World, so
a massive inflow of Scots and Irish immigrants made their
way to the Yellow Breeches.
Less than a decade later, these immigrants began to
expand their land and businesses and started to spill into
Williams Grove. Williams Grove is a 26-square-mile realm of
rich, lush forest and rolling fertile farmlands.
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