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William "Amos" Wilson. William Wilson (ca. 1762 – October 1821) — known as The Pennsylvania Hermit — became a figure in the folklore of southeastern and south-central Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His sister Elizabeth had been condemned for the murder of her children, although many [who?] believed her to be ...
Indian Echo Caverns. Indian Echo Caverns is a historic show cave in Derry Township, Dauphin County near Hershey and Hummelstown, Pennsylvania in the United States. [1][2] The caverns were mentioned in an article by the Philadelphia Philosophical Society as early as the 1700s. [3]
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
September 19, 1999 [ 2 ] The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [ 4 ] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
Indian Caverns was a show cave in Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, United States from 1929-2017. It is a horizontal karst cave of Ordovician Nealmont/Benner limestone, estimated to be about 500,000 years old. It is the second-largest cave in Pennsylvania and the largest limestone cave. Indian Caverns consists of two sections, originally separated by ...
Laurel Caverns is the largest cave in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by volume and area. [3] Located in the community of Farmington, it sits on the Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown, [4] roughly 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. Initially an unregulated wild cave that was known by locals and word of mouth as "Dulany's Cave" (alternate ...
Restricted. The Port Kennedy Bone Cave is a limestone cave in the Port Kennedy section of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, USA. [1] The Bone Cave "contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America". [2]
The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755 raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War.