Teaoga & Queen Esther's Town - PLAQUE

Teaoga & Queen Esther's Town - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Bradford County, dedicated 1928.

US 220 (E side), 1 mile N of Milan

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Teaoga. A watch town, the south door of the Iroquois House was situated at the meeting of the rivers 200 rods to the northeast. Queen Esther's Town of the Delaware Indians was 100 rods to the east along the Chemung River banks. Both towns were destroyed by Colonel Thomas Hartley and his troops Sept. 27, 1778. These flats for 5 miles known as Queen Esther's Flats were grazing ground for their herds.

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Historical maps covering this location

1778 · La Pensilvania, la Nuova York, il Jersey Settentriole. Fogl. V (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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)
1794 · Pensylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · Pennsylvania (Lewis, 1795) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

A Map Of The State Of Pennsylvania, 1792, covering the location of Teaoga & Queen Esther's Town - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A Map Of The State Of Pennsylvania, 1792, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Teaoga & Queen Esther's Town - PLAQUE

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