Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE

Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in 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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Historical maps covering this location

1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Princeton University Library)
1755 · North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1894 · Allentown, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of…, 1755, covering the location of Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of…, 1755, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Famous Indian Walk (The) - PLAQUE

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