Fisherman’s Paradise – An Historic Reach of Spring Creek
Robert F. Carline, Rebecca L. Dunlap, Jason E. Detar, and Bruce A. Hollender In late 1932, the Pennsylvania Fish Commission purchased for $12,000 about 90 acres of land along Spring Creek 2.5 miles south of Bellefonte Borough (Manchester 1994). The tract, which included 1.12 miles of Spring Creek and a large spring, was labeled the Spring Creek Project with the dual purpose of fish cultural activities and demonstration of techniques to improve fish habitat. Owing to the excep