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Fort Shirley - PLAQUE

Huntingdon County · dedicated 1926 · US 522, Shirleysburg

One of the chain of frontier defenses of the Province of Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars stood on this knoll built 1756 by its commander the noted Indian Trader and Agent GEORGE CROGHAN. Here in 1753 at the site of Aughwick Indian Town he had located his trading post and here September 3-6, 1754 CONRAD WEISER the noted Indian Interpreter and Agent had held a conference with the great Iroquoian Half King TANACHARISON and other chiefs of the Shawnee and Delaware Indians.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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

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