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Kittanning or Attique Indian Town - PLAQUE

Armstrong County · dedicated 1926 · At park on E bank of Allegheny River, at Kittaning Citizens Bridge, NW corner of N Water & Market St

...Was located on this river flat. The chief settlement as early as 1727 of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians in their early westward movement from the Susquehanna River became the most important Indian center west of the Allegheny Mountains. Destroyed September 8, 1756 by Colonel John Armstrong and his 300 frontier troops from the Cumberland Valley.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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