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1972. McConnells Mill State Park is a 2,546 acres (1,030 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Perry and Slippery Rock Townships, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park features a deep scenic gorge with the restored watermill and a covered bridge at the bottom, accessible by a roadway that winds between large, room-sized boulders ...
80003544 [1] Added to NRHP. June 27, 1980. The McConnell's Mill Covered Bridge is an historic, wooden covered bridge that is located in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. [2] : 2 It spans the Slippery Rock Creek in McConnells Mill State Park, [3] southeast of Rose Point. [2] : 5.
Uneven and rocky terrain, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, ticks, black bears. The Slippery Rock Gorge Trail is a 6.1-mile (9.8 km) hiking trail in western Pennsylvania, which follows Slippery Rock Creek and then Hell Run within McConnells Mill State Park. [1] Part of the route is within Slippery Rock Gorge, which is a National Natural Landmark. [2]
In another more prosaic story, the Native Americans coined the name due to natural oil seeps in and around the present-day McConnells Mill State Park that made the rocks slippery; those seeps were later eliminated by fossil fuel extraction. Recreation. Slippery Rock Creek is a favorite for whitewater kayakers and canoeists from the region.
R. B. Winter State Park and Eastville. McConnells Mill State Park: Lawrence County: 2,546 acres (1,030 ha) 1957: Slippery Rock Creek: Features a deep scenic gorge with a restored watermill and a covered bridge: Memorial Lake State Park: Lebanon County: 230 acres (93 ha) 1945: Indiantown Run, Memorial Lake
Located within Slippery Rock Township is McConnells Mill State Park along the Slippery Rock Creek Gorge. Demographics [ edit ] As of the census [9] of 2000, there were 3,179 people, 1,203 households, and 916 families residing in the township.
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy ( WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than a quarter million acres of natural lands. The Conservancy plants and maintains more than 132 gardens in 20 Western ...
unnamed tributaries. Bridges. Center Church Road, Copper Road, Shaffer Road. Hell Run is a 4.5 mi (7.2 km) long tributary to Slippery Rock Creek in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Hell Run flows most of its distance through McConnells Mill State Park and is the only stream in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania rated as an Exceptional Value (EV) stream.