Minguannan Indian Town - PLAQUE

Minguannan Indian Town - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Chester County, dedicated 1924.

Junction of London Tract Rd. (SR 3034), Sharpless Rd., and S Bank Rd., 1.5 miles NE of Strickersvill

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Minguannan Indian Town was located here. The chief Machaloha or Owhala and his people of the Unami group *Their totem*The tortoise*of the Lenni-Lenape or Delawares sold to William Penn the lands between Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay to the falls of Susquehanna River October 18, 1683.

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Historical maps covering this location

1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1687 · Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae â R.P. Ludovico Hennepin… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · Elkton, Maryland (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, 1708, covering the location of Minguannan Indian Town - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, 1708, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Minguannan Indian Town - PLAQUE

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