Indian Steps is a memorial to the Indians who formerly dwelt in the vicinity. It was designed and built by John Edward Vandersloot, who named it after a nearby fishing rock on whose face the Indians had carved footholds. After Mr. Vandersloot's death, the Pennsylvania Water and Power Company purchased the property for its Holtwood hydroelectric development, and the Indian memorial is being preserved, in cooperation with the conservation society of York County, as a museum and place of recreation for the public.