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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.
Shamokin was established in central Pennsylvania by Lenape who were displaced from their traditional homeland along the Delaware river by growing colonial communities in the early 18th century. The earliest reference to thec town is in 1711, when the Shawnee chief Opessa Straight Tail is recorded as marrying Polly, the daughter of Sassoonan .
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of present-day ...
Logstown and other Native American villages, most circa 1750s. The riverside village of Logstown (1726?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue [1]: 356 (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the ...
Waxhaw Presbyterian Church was built here in 1759, indicating the presence of an early Scotch-Irish settlement. [110] Town possibly named by settlers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. US-521 + US-521Bus: Main St + Kershaw Camden Hwy: 18 miles (29 km) Fording Bear Creek (now a bridge). Kershaw, South Carolina (estab. 1732) US-521 Bus + US-521
The first north-south line, Eastern Ohio Meridian, was to be the western boundary of Pennsylvania, sometimes called Ellicott's Line [3] after Andrew Ellicott, who had been in charge of surveying it, and the first east-west line (called the Geographer's Line or Base Line) was to begin where the Pennsylvania boundary touched the north bank of the ...
Early Settlement, Ethnic & Immigration, Government & Politics 18th Century Athens: May 12, 1947: PA 199 (old U.S. 220) at Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens Roadside Cities & Towns, Early Settlement, Military, Native American Azilum: May 12, 1947: U.S. 6, 4.5 miles N of Wyalusing at lookout Roadside Cities & Towns, Early Settlement, Ethnic ...
The known boundaries of Erie lands extended from the Allegheny River to the shores of Lake Erie. They were once believed, due to a misidentification of villages by early French explorers mapping the Great Lakes, to control all the land from northwestern Pennsylvania to about Sandusky, Ohio, but archaeologists have now attributed the western half of that to another culture referred to as the ...