Full Album of Pennsylvania Meets Sullivan-Clinton
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Pennsylvania Meets Sullivan-Clinton
The pretext and 1/2 of the build-up, march and launch of Sullivan/Clinton all happened in Pennsylvania.
Once A Crossroads
Markers on Rt, 220 note where Indian villages of Teoga & Queen Esther’s Town stood before September 1791 and Hartley’s Expedition burned them out.
Hartley’s Revenge
American Col. Hartley’s Expedition is remember -ed by this 1929 plaque for having burned Teoga and Queen Esther’s Town. It was another turn in a brutal cycle...
Immediate Retaliation
In September 1778, Col. Thomas Hartley led over 200 troops against the region’s Haudeno- saunee and Delware villages, to avenge the July defeat and bloody af...
Wyoming Massacre
The most common historical image (19th century) of the killings of July 3, 1778 in the Wyoming Valley. Today, the Pennsyl- vania Historical and Museum Commis...
Marking Wyoming
Wyoming’s stature in the American Revolu- tion is reflected by the battle being registered as a National Historic Site.
Wyoming!
Avenging the July, 1778 blood shed in the Wyoming Valley became the main rallying point, across the rebelling colonies, for launching the Sulli- van-Clinton ...
Over Ancestral Bones
Plaque at the Wyoming Monument commemo- rates the Yankee fallen, 80 of whose remains lie beneath, and are memo- rialized every July 4th, Independence Day.
Susquehanna Banks
The river runs through and links NY and PA regions traversed by S/C. This island, near the Wyoming Battlesite, is deemed the birthplace of Hiawatha, the grea...
Tioga (Turning) Point
Tioga (Turning) Point The Indian villages of Teoga and its neighbor Queen Esther’s Town (the “Southern Door”), were burned in revenge for Wyoming by the Hart...
War Memorial
War Memorial Monument to the more than 400 Yankee soldiers and settlers slain in the July, 1778 attack on Wyoming Valley by Tory and Indian forces under John...
Trailblazer, East
In 1774, Silas Deane backed annexing northern PA to Litchfield County, CT, as the Town of Westmoreland. CT’s projecting its “western claim” - through Hartfor...