In Southern Chester County, along Route 82, there is an agrarian oasis. The landscape undulates, with hay growing on rolling hillsides and copses of woods dotting the viewshed. Small streams meander through the lowlands, carrying some of the highest quality water in the region to the Brandywine...

The construction of low head dams—which allow water to flow over their entire top—played an important role in the settlement, development, and growth of our Nation, especially in southeastern Pennsylvania. These dams harnessed the power of water by storing a large volume (or head) of water...

Join us as we continue our exploration of the vegetative communities of the Piedmont region of the Eastern United States. In this ongoing series of blogs, we will spotlight specific vegetative communities, define their historic structures, describe the processes that created them, examine past...