 91a. Fort Freeland. Fort Freeland, near Turbotsville, destroyed during the Revolution by British and Seneca Indian allies, July 28, 1779. 92. Site of the Penn's Creek Massacre, Selinsgrove. Indians murdered 15 persons and carried 10 away, October 1, 1755, following the defeat of General Braddock. 93. Clearfield, the site of Chinklacamoose's town. Clearfield for many years called Oldtown. A favorite hunting ground for the Seneca Indians. 94. Battle of Brady's Bend. Hostile Indians were defeated by an advance guard of Provincial troops under Captain Samuel Brady, famous Indian fighter. 94a. Punxsutawney (Gnattown), site of Iroquois Lodge meeting in very early Indian days. 95. Kittanning, an old Indian town. Early western terminus of the Indian path from Standing Stone. Indian town was destroyed by Colonel Armstrong, August 30, 1756. Many Indians were sleeping in a cornfield when attack was made. 96. Captain Brady's Rock, 2 miles n of Butler(?). 96a. Stonehouse, near Slippery Rock--Sam Mohawk, the Cornhusker Indian, murdered the wife and five children of James Wigton--the last of the Indian tragedies in Pennsylvania. 97. Harmony Communistic Society established by George Rapp, 1805. This Society, organized in Wurtemberg and brought to America, was an attempt to put communism into practice. Rapp, the leader, died in1847. In 1903 but four members were left. 98. Fort McIntosh, at Beaver, built by General McIntosh, October, 1778. On July 10, 1780, General Brodhead ordered troops to rendezvous here for a campaign against the Wyandots. 99. David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary, was adopted into the Munsey tribe. June 20, 1771, he dedicated at Friedenstadt, near Wampum, the first church west of the Alleghenies. 100. Court House, Mercer, in which Reverend Samuel Tait was preaching when congregation was dismissed to march to Erie, 1814. [ Historical note - In 1813, Captain John Jenkin of the Mercer Blues, returned home to Mercer, opened a recruiting rendezvous and recruited a number of men. With them, he marched to Erie in the Spring of 1814 shortly before Perry's Victory and remained there until after the battle on the lake. His men being transferred, he returned to Mercer and died April 27, 1814 of Black Rock Fever.] 101. Meadville, laid out by Major Roger Allen, land agent of Holland Land Company. 101a. Titusville--First oil well sunk in United States. 101b. Rouseville--First flowing oil well in United States. 102. Fort LaBoeuf, at Waterford. Described by Washington in his Journal, 1753, "number of men supposed 200, exclusive of officers." 103. Battle of Lake Erie. Perry's victory was the only naval battle of the War of 1812, in which squadron met squadron and the only engagement in which al the vessels of the enemy were captured. Part of Perry's flag ship is preserved in the Erie County Historical Society. 103a. Erie--first visited by white men in 1611 and settled in 1753 when the French erected a stockade and blockhouse known as Fort Presque Isle. 104. Cornplanter Indian Reservation. Gyantwochiz, the cornplanter, became the friend of the settlers after the Revolution. He secured from the State 640 acres of land about 15 miles north of Warren. 105. Fort Franklin. Built by U. S. troops in 1787 and permitted to fall in disuse after the Treaty of Greenville. 106. Teutonia, 5 miles S of East Smethport(?), the Society of Industry. Founded March 1843 by Mr. Henry Girial and then owned by a community society called "The Society of Industry." 106a. Port Allegheny--At one time the junction of the two great Indians' war trails of the Iroquois and Cherokee nations. 106b. Coudersport--Ice Mine a freak of nature, ice appearing in abundance in summer and growing less with the approach of winter. 107. Ole Bull's Castle, Abbott Township. The old castle wall, still preserved, marks the spot where in 1852 Ole Bull, famous Norwegian violinist, made an attempt to establish a colony. 108. Battle of Peter Grove, near Sinnemahoning. Peter Grove's father had been killed by Indians. The son followed the red men to the mouth of Grove's Run, surprising and killing a number of them. This occurred before Cameron County was inhabited by whites. 109. Reed's Fort, Lock Haven. Named for William Reed, who had a cabin on the site of Lock Haven before 1778. 110. Fort Muncy. Erected by Colonel Thomas Hartley in 1778. Important in defense of the country after the Wyoming Massacre. 111. Old Indian Mound above Pine Creek and north of Lock Haven road. Site of ancient Indian cemetery. 112. Site of Fort Sullivan, Athens. A 1779 temporary Patriot stockade from the Sullivan Expedition against the Seneca and Delaware Indians. 112a. Grave of David Wilmot, Towanda author of the Wilmot Proviso. 113. Site of Asylum, Wysox, settlement of French refugees. Projected in 1793 for French refugees. Robert Morris was one of the promoters. 114. Site of Lewis Extensive Glass Works, Eagles Mere. Between 1800 and 1812 a wealthy Englishman by the name of Lewis built here a large stone mansion and carried on the manufacture of fine glass. 115. Fort McClure, Bloomsburg, built by Moses Van Campen, 1781. 116. Site of Wyoming Massacre, Wilkes-Barre, July, 1778, Indians, British and Tories fell upon the defenseless inhabitants of the valley. Immortalized in song by Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming." 116a. Wilkes-Barre was the mobilization point for the expedition of General Sullivan sent by General Washington to avenge the Wyoming massacre, one of the bloodiest outrages committed by the Indians, employed by the British, in a desperate effort to end the Revolutionary War. 117. Fort Jenkins, West Pittston. Captured by British (July 2, 1778) and Indians on their way to destroy the settlement at Wyoming. 118. The Capouse were a tribe of peaceful Indians on whose village Scranton was built. 119. Site of early Dutch settlement. About 1733 Thomas Quick located on the Delaware at what is now Milford. He was the pioneer settler. His son, Thomas Quick, became known as the "Indian Killer." 119a. Battle Of Minisink. Fierce Indian battle fought opposite Lackawaxen, July 22, 1779. While the battle was on the New York side, every section on the east side of the river has its local tradition of the Minisink Indians. 120. Location of first railroad in America on which a locomotive was run. The Honesdale and Carbondale Railroad, completed 1829, to carry coal, was 16 miles long. 121. Scene of battle with Indians and Tories, near Eatonville, 1778. 122. Site of encampment of General James Clinton, near Tioga, 1779, while awaiting Sullivan's Expedition. |
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