Mead Island Tradition

Mead Island Tradition is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Conewango Twp., Warren County, dedicated 2021.

US 6/PA 62, Conewango Twp.

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Near this location the Mead Island culture was first identified In 1967 by Carnegie Museum Archaeologist Dr. Stanley Lantz on Mead Island. Further excavations of this prehistoric Native American group nearby at the nearby Penelec site and other locations between here and Freeport in Armstrong county verify that these people were the dominant residents of the Middle Allegheny River Valley during the early Late Woodland period (960-1360 AD).

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1865 · Map of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1906 · Warren, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
Pennsylvania. (Penn State University Libraries)

Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties, 1872, covering the location of Mead Island Tradition, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron 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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Mead Island Tradition

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