David Zeisberger - PLAQUE

David Zeisberger - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Potter County, dedicated 1916.

Potter County · dedicated 1916 · 2nd St. (US 6) & Main Sts.

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Erected as a memorial to David Zeisberger, who encamped near this place on the night of October 8, 1767, when on his way from Bethlehem to the mouth of Tionesta Creek to visit the Indians on the Allegheny River. He was accompained by two Delaware Indians, Anthony and Papunhank. This visit led to the establishment of the various Moravian missions among the Delaware in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. David Zeisberger was, so far as all records show, the first white man to pass through the primeval forests of the upper Allegheny River.

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