Wright's Ferry
The complex was important in settling the lands west of the cranky Susquehanna , for without resorting to water craft , the ferry was the first ( and for many years , "the only" ) means of crossing the wide watercourse of the relatively shallow Susquehanna River for settlers with a cargo in the southern part of Pennsylvania—which is very wide from Middletown , Dauphin County southerly past Wright's Ferry and grows steadily wider as it nears its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay , and whose banks are steep enough to prevent easy cargo handling from small boats . 
<triplet> Susquehanna River <subj> Pennsylvania <obj> located in the administrative territorial entity <triplet> Chesapeake Bay <subj> Susquehanna River <obj> origin of the watercourse