Now, the entire original colonial settlement known as Jeffcoats, which stretched 3-1/2 miles along Big Pond Branch near the border of Lexington and Orangeburg counties, has been recognized by the ...

It features a settling pond and an aerobic wetland, shown here. JILL WHALEN/TIMES NEWS. This acid mine drainage site in Tamaqua would fall under the STREAM Act. COPYRIGHT LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE ...

The pond was originally part of land settled by the Munson family in the late 1890s, the signs say. In the 1960s it was leased to J.W. Bedford Ltd. and mined as a gravel pit for about five years.