Shawnee Flats

Shawnee Flats is a Pennsylvania historical marker in 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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1891 · Map of Pennsylvania. 93 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1947 · Wilkes-Barre West, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1950 · Wilkes-Barre West, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Wilkes-Barre West, Pennsylvania, 1950, covering the location of Shawnee Flats, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Wilkes-Barre West, Pennsylvania, 1950, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Shawnee Flats

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