John Harris Ambush - PLAQUE
On October 25, 1755, John Harris, founder of Harrisburg, and a party of 40 men, who came up the river to investigate the (John) Penns Creek Massacre, were ambushed by a party of Indians near the mouth of this creek, at the head of the Isle of Que, about one third of a mile south of this spot.
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