Great Minqua Path

Great Minqua Path is a Pennsylvania historical marker in S of Washington Boro, Lancaster County, dedicated 1951.

W side of River Rd. between Blue Rock Rd. & Anchor Rd., S of Washington Boro

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This was the chief trail used by the Minqua (Susquehannock) Indians to carry great wealth in beaver skins to the white settlements on the Delaware during the mid-seventeenth century. The Swedes, Dutch and English warred for the control of this trade.

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1912 · Mc Calls Ferry, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1943 · Mc Calls Ferry, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1943 · McCalls Ferry, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Pennsylvania, 1927, covering the location of Great Minqua Path, 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.

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Great Minqua Path

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