Did You Know – the Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River…

• maybe the oldest major river system in the world going back as far as 340 million
  years ago.
• is 464 miles long making it the longest river lying entirely in the United States which drains into the Atlantic.
• comes from the Delaware Indian term -Sisa-we-;hak-hanna which translates to Oyster River
• is where Binghamton University’s Crew Club practices.
• was explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. He noted that “Heaven and Earth
  seemed never to have agreed better”