Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE

Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Bucks County, dedicated 1925.

Bucks County · dedicated 1925 · PA 412 (Hellertown Rd.) at creek just E of Moyer Rd., ~ a mile SW of Springtown (plaque missing)

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...of a day and a half from Wrightstown, Bucks County to near the present Mauch Chunk was performed for the Penn proprietors of Pennsylvania September 19-20, 1737 by EDWARD MARSHALL and his associates coming by the old Durham Road and a well-beaten Indian path At noon of the first day they ate their meal in the meadow of Mary Wilson widow of George Wilson an Indian Trader and Innkeeper who settled here about 1730 on a 472 acre tract located upon this branch of Cook's Creek in present Springfield Township Bucks County.

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Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE

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