Stream Cleanup – Saturday, October 19
It’s time for our monthly clean up Saturday, October 19. Bring your boots, waders, and tools to remove invasive plants in and along Town Run. We will meet at the […]
Get the Invasives Out – Saturday, September 14
It’s time for our monthly clean up is Saturday, September 14. Bring your boots, waders, and tools to remove invasive plants in and along Town Run. We will meet at […]
Town Run Revisited
More than 50 gathered at the Byrd Center auditorium on Thursday, April 18th, to hear Dr. Keith Alexander share some of the story of Town Run, previously named Falling Springs Branch. He reminded us that exploitation has been a strong thread in the stream’s history beginning in 1738 with European settlers.
Town Run Cleanup Makes a Splash!
About 30 volunteers joined Saturday to help remove trash and invasive plants at 3 locations along Town Run – along the Princess Street riverside park, between the stone walls along […]
Accepting Applications: Jeff. County Water Improvement Project
Do you value clean water for drinking, fishing, swimming, and farming? Do you want to help keep our local streams and rivers clean while also improving the health of the […]
Town Run Watershed Receives 2024 Stream Partners Grant
Congratulations are in order for our fledgling group, which received a 2024 Stream Partners grant in the amount of $5000! We will use the grant to produce a website, posters […]
Rotary Club Renovates Fountain Rock Spring House
The spring house pictured above and located in the park is the only remaining structure of Fountain Rock, Alexander Boteler’s family mansion which was destroyed by Union forces in 1864. […]
Town Run monitoring station installed with $6,700 grant from town of Shepherdstown
August 6, 2020 SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherd University’s Department of Environmental and Physical Sciences is using a $6,700 grant from the Corporation of Shepherdstown to monitor water quality in the Town […]
Town Run: A natural part of Shepherdstown’s history
It gathers clean waters from just south of Shepherdstown. Much of the cool and clear water comes from six natural springs, but as many as 20 scattered sources feed the Town Run.
Of the sources of the never-flooded, never-dry Town Run, a spring house on the grounds of Morgans Grove park is probably the most-noticed site by the public.
Once its waters are joined together as a narrow stream, the Town Run moves leisurely northward in the direction of Shepherdstown.