Shannopin Town

Shannopin Town is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Allegheny County, dedicated 1958.

40th St. at GW bridge (west side), Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh)

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Name of a Delaware Indian village that covered this site from about 1731 to the French occupation, 1754. It was the Allegheny River terminus of the Raystown Indian and Traders Path from Carlisle to the west.

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Historical maps covering this location

1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Princeton University Library)
1792 · A Map Of The State Of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Ward 15. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties, 1872, covering the location of Shannopin Town, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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

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