Conestoga Indian Town

Conestoga Indian Town is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Lancaster County, dedicated 1967.

PA 999 (Blue Rock Rd.) between Washington Boro & Millersville, 200 ft. W of Central Manor Rd. (SR 30

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About one mile eastwards stood the Conestoga Indian Town. Its peaceful Iroquoian inhabitants were visited by William Penn in 1701 who made treaties with them. In 1763 they were ruthlessly massacred by a frontier mob called the "Paxtang Boys."

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1755 · North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville, improved with the back settlements of… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1825 · Map Of Pennsylvania And New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Lancaster, County, PA, map 1 (Penn State University Libraries)

Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, 1708, covering the location of Conestoga Indian Town, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, 1708, 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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