Shawnee Flats

Shawnee Flats is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Luzerne County, dedicated 1947.

Luzerne County · dedicated 1947 · US 11, .8 mile SW of Plymouth

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To this broad valley came groups of Shawnee Indians removed from the lower Susquehanna and Delaware to reside until dispersed to the upper Ohio country. The mid-18th century was the occupation period.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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Shawnee Flats

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