"Canoe Place"

"Canoe Place" is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Clearfield County, dedicated 1946.

US 219 just W of Stifflertown/Buterbaugh Rd., .5 miles N of Stifflertown (Missing)

Get directions ↗Start a road trip Historical trails

Indians traveling from the Allegheny to the West Branch by way of Portage-Driftwood Creeks, carried their canoes over the divide -- a distance of 23 miles -- to the other "Canoe Place," near present Emporium Junction.

This sign is no longer standing.

TodayHistorical map

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1904 · Barnesboro, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · Pennsylvania, Western Section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Pennsylvania. (Penn State University Libraries)

Pennsylvania, 1927, covering the location of "Canoe Place", with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

Example

For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.

What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.

From one family's 77-marker roster

Upload your family tree and TreeAlive finds the markers near where your own ancestors lived.

See your family's markers

Start with a tree file, a FamilySearch sign in, or a WikiTree ID.

Report a problem with this page

The marker isn't at this spotOur pin may be off. If you know where it stands, tell us.I couldn't find the markerWe record what the source recorded. We have not been to look.The sign reads differentlyThat would be an error, and we can pass it to the program.The historical map looks wrongThe period map behind the pin, not the marker itself.Something else

We may pass what you report to the state's marker program. Please don't include personal details.

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

More markers nearby

Hastings UMWA - District 2 Labor Chautauquas7 mi
Dr. Lawrence F. Flick11 mi
Rev. A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)12 mi
Dr. Robert Mitchell (1786-1863)12 mi