Okehocking Indian Town - PLAQUE

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

Chester County · dedicated 1924 · West Chester Pike (PA 3), .5 mile E of Street Rd. (PA 926) & equidistant between West Chester and Ne

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The chiefs Pokhais, Sepopawny and Muttagooppa with their people, of the Unami group *Their totem * The tortoise * of the Lenni-Lenape or Delawares were moved from Lower Ridley and Crum Creeks by William Penn to a square tract of 500 acres on the north side of this road East of Ridley Creek, the only Indian Reservation the Proprietor ever established 1701.

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