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The present village was built a short distance southeast of the site of Peach Bottom Station. The post office for the area (ZIP code 17563) is named "Peach Bottom" but is located on Pennsylvania Route 272 just north of Wakefield. The Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station lies across the river, on the site of the original town.
Peach Bottom Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, 60 miles (97 km) south of Harrisburg. The population was 4,961 at the 2020 census. [2] Peach Bottom Township was so named on account of peach trees growing near a river bottom. [4] Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station was built in 1958.
Coulsontown Cottages Historic District is a national historic district located at Coulsontown in Peach Bottom Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings. They are stone cottages built between 1845 and 1865. They are two story dwellings, 2/3 by 1 bay, with slate covered gable roofs and end chimneys ...
Peach Bottom Unit 1 was an experimental helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor. The reactor was fueled by a mixed 232 Th-235 U fuel. [2] It operated from 1966 to 1974. Peach Bottom 2 and 3, General Electric boiling water reactors, went on-line in 1974, and are still in operation on the 620-acre (2.5 km 2) site today.
The New Castle Path ran from Peach Bottom east to New Castle, Delaware, and was sometimes known as the Susquehanna Path. James Logan traveled this path in 1705 to Peach Bottom and north to Conestoga on his first visit there, as did Governor John Evans. [21]
The Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway (LO&S) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway that operated in southeastern Pennsylvania between 1912 and 1918, as a successor company following the bankruptcy of the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad. The main line connected Oxford and Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania.
Susquehanna Trails is located at (39.761121, -76.372205) [2] in Peach Bottom Township According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km 2 ), all land.
The Peach Bottom Railway was a 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, designed to haul coal from the Broad Top fields in central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, but succeeded only in establishing two local short lines.