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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.
Pennsylvania Mirror (State College) (1968–1977) [242] ... Der Susquehanna Beobachter, und Luzerne und Columbia Caunty Advertiser (Wilkesbarre) (1826–1830) [282]
Joseph Augustus Zarelli (January 13, 1953 [5] – February 1957), previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was an American 4-year-old male whose nude, malnourished, beaten body was found on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957.
Susquehanna County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the population was 38,434 [ 1 ] Its county seat is Montrose . [ 2 ] The county was created on February 21, 1810, from part of Luzerne County [ 3 ] and later organized in 1812. [ 4 ]
She graduated from Whitehall High School [3] and attended Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. McKeever was a music major at Susquehanna and while there was involved in Sigma Alpha Iota, a music fraternity for women. [citation needed] She was also involved in piano, chapel choir, Susquehanna Singers and the Symphony Orchestra.
The Steuben Shaft at Avondale Colliery is situated on the right bank of the Susquehanna River, four miles from Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania in Luzerne County. It was developed in 1867 by the Nanticoke Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The 327-foot-deep (100 m) shaft allowed access to the 9-foot Red ...
In 1754 at Albany, the Susquehanna Company purchased a deed to a tract of land along the Susquehanna River from the Iroquois (Six Nations) who had long held the land by right of conquest, and in 1769, John Durkee and a group of 240 Connecticut settlers created five townships, surveying their bounds, naming them Wilkesbarre (later renamed Wilkes ...
At the 2000 census there were 550 people, 227 households, and 153 families living in the township. The population density was 33.5 inhabitants per square mile (12.9/km 2). ...