Kittanning or Attique Indian Town - PLAQUE

Kittanning or Attique Indian Town - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Armstrong County, dedicated 1926.

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

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...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.

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Historical maps covering this location

1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Princeton University Library)
1782 · Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1792 · A Map Of The State Of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Jefferson, Clarion, Indiana, Armstrong counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1900 · Kittanning, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Jefferson, Clarion, Indiana, Armstrong counties, 1872, covering the location of Kittanning or Attique Indian Town - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Jefferson, Clarion, Indiana, Armstrong counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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

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