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  Tuscarora and Six Nations Websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Path Valley, situated in the northwestern part of Franklin County Pennsylvania, is parallel with the main, or Cumberland Valley, but separated from it by the Kittatinny and Blue Mountains, two ranges terminating near Loudin in Jordan's and Parnell's knobs.
Path Valley was a popular place for Indian traders, more especially after the locating of the Tuscaroras in that section, and early maps show it to have been dotted here and there with the paths over which these traders trod on their way to the wilderness where civilization had not as yet penetrated.
The opening of these paths into the Indian territory had a disastrous effect, as may be inferred from a speech of one of the chiefs at a conference held with the authorities at Carlisle, on October 12, 1753.
tuscaroras.com /pages/history/path_valley_1.html   (2611 words)

  
 Indian8
A second path headed southward to intersect with the Forbes Road path in the vicinity of Fort Littleton.
The Frankstown Path continued from Standing Stone along the course of the Little Juniata River, and then the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River.
According to maps which show the route of the Indian trails across Pennsylvania, the Frankstown Path is shown as forming a "Y" in the vicinity of Assunepachla/Frankstown.
www.motherbedford.com /Indian8.htm   (2955 words)

  
 Kittanning holds place in French and Indian War spotlight - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The medal was engraved by Edward Duffield, a Philadelphia watchmaker and engraver, and cast January 5, 1757, by noted Philadelphian silversmith Joseph Richardson in honor of Lt. Col.
The trek Mateer refers to is the 2000 re-enactment of Armstrong's march on Kittanning, which was coordinated by Cambria County resident Lane Savage in honor of Armstrong County's bicentennial.
The historic Kittanning Path passes through the area, and the teacher often would stray to stories associated with it.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_329238.html   (1228 words)

  
 2000 Expedition
Hogg was later to die from 3 wounds and was buried by Armstrong somewhere along the Kittanning Path on the return trip.
Armstrong was tasked with a mission to raid and destroy the Delaware Indian town of Kittanning in retaliation for the countless raids brought upon the colony of Pennsylvania.
Armstrong and his 307 men and the countless captives taken to Kittanning leaves you with a sense of awe that is difficult to describe.
reenacting.net /kittanning2006/2000_expedition.htm   (5212 words)

  
 Kittanning Path - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Kittanning Path was a major east-west Native American trail in western Pennsylvania used during the 18th century.
The path was in use as early as 1721.
In the 1750s the path became the route by which Lenape, unhappy with the treaty that had given away much of their land rights in western Pennsylvania, raided white settlements in central Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Kittanning_Path   (632 words)

  
 Chapter 9 - Groundwater Chemistry
Discharges associated with mining that was predominantly on the lower Kittanning coal are net-acidic (e.g., 23, 24A, 25, and 26).
LK indicates water associated with the lower Kittanning coal, CL identifies water associated with the Clarion coal, and "mix" is water from both seams.
Brackish shales overlie the coal, and fluvial sandstones overlie the brackish shales.
www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/DEPUTATE/minres/districts/CMDP/chap09.html   (9308 words)

  
 Chapter 10
Between the lower permeability of the unweathered rock zone and the downward component of much of the flow, little water from the unweathered rock zone is contributed to the springs.
S/cm) as a function of depth from the surface to the bottom of the upper Kittanning coal seam for overburden holes (NP), and drill holes and springs (specific conductance).
Water quality is directly related to the flow path, the dissolution of minerals contacted by the groundwater, and the contact time of the water with the rock.
www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/DEPUTATE/MINRES/districts/CMDP/chap10.html   (4791 words)

  
 Armstrong's Victory at Kittanning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Prisoners who escaped their Indian captors reported that the war parties had their headquarters at Kittanning, a settlement of Delaware Indians who had removed from eastern Pennsylvania, and a place known for thirty years to Pennsylvania traders who dealt with these Indians.
Marching by various routes, three hundred men of Armstrong's six garrisons assembled at Fort Shirley, the most advanced of the forts; and on Monday, August 30, the main body of troops set out from this place, preceded by an advance party which they overtook at the Allegheny Mountain on Friday, September 3.
The setting moon lighted the head of the column to the river, within a quarter-mile of the lower end of the Indian town.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/kittanning/page1.asp?secid=31   (572 words)

  
 ARMSTRONG COUNTY PAGE
The county seat of Kittanning, whose name was derived from the Indian word for "at the great stream," was laid out on a famous Delaware and Shawnee Indian settlement which was claimed by the Six Nations by conquest.
Kittanning, together with Ford City and Rosston, was included in Appleby Manor--surveyed in 1769 and one of the forty-four manors reserved by the Penns.
It was the terminal point of the old Frankstown Path (locally called the Kittanning Path), which was used by both the Indians and the settlers for years and was part of a national system of trails, following much the same course from Shelocta to Kittanning as present-day US 422.
www.timevoyagers.com /bookstore/penna/armstrong.htm   (757 words)

  
 Armstrong County, PA - Come, Play, Discover!
The Kittanning Section is a 14-foot wide paved asphalt surface that runs through the County Seat of Armstrong County.
Kittanning’s Riverfront Park, home of the Fort Armstrong Folk Festival in early August, is located only 3 blocks from the trail.
This hiking trail follows forest paths, old jeep trails and dirt roads through woods and farmlands and is marked by yellow blazes.
www.armstrongcounty.com /hiking.php   (797 words)

  
 Tory
They confess their Crime and Intention of destroying both Men and Property; as these People thus in open rebellion are so numerous, there is great Reason to believe them as a part of a greater whole in some dangerous confederacy with the Common Enemy either at Phila or Detroit.
Despite certain exaggerations, such as the number of savages and Tories who were massing in the western regions of the state, the confession was useful in alerting the Patriots of the problem.
From there the party traveled via the Kittanning Path to the Indian village of Kittanning.
www.motherbedford.com /Tory.htm   (3134 words)

  
 Three Rivers Genealogy - The Battle of Blanket Hill
The Delaware Indian (part of the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations) town of Kittanning was the largest in the region and was the base of many attacks against settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier.
After nightfall on September 7, as the troop approached Kittanning, an advance scout brought word of a fire along the path.
Although Armstrong's mission successfully destroyed Kittanning, many of his men were killed or injured because of the Blanket Hill incident.
15122.com /3rivers/History/CITIES/BlanketHill.htm   (998 words)

  
 KITTANNING EXPEDITION
An ambush by some Indian re-enactor friends had been planned, and their vehicle was at the place we left ours earlier, and the dew on it indicated that they had come in the day before and should already be in the pre-arranged location for the ambush.
The path was very well defined, even after all these years, and it gave a very real sense of how it must have been for Armstrong and his army.
Hart's Sleeping Place was so-named for the trader, John Hart, who traveled the Kittanning Path, sleeping in a hollow tree which stood near this place.
www.mohicanpress.com /kittanning.html   (8874 words)

  
 Migration Trails In Early Pennsylvania
They did hunt the game so many of their Walking Paths were the same as the paths made by the animals that they hunted.
Nemacolin's Path was named for the Delaware Indian who assisted Colonel Thomas Cresap in blazing a path from Cumberland, Maryland to a trading post of the Ohio Company of Virginia at present-day Brownsville, PA.
The path connected to Kittanning on the Allegheny, the largest Indians settlement to the west before its destruction by Colonel John Armstrong in 1756.
www.mcn.org /2/noel/Westmoreland/MigrationTrails.htm   (1534 words)

  
 nativespenna.html
Synopsis of Migration and Identification of the Tuscarora Path
By the third, the young men asked for the privilege to leave their towns without the fear of death or slavery to hunt for meat for their mothers, their children, and the aged ones.
By the fourth, the old men, the elders of the people asked for the consum-mation of a lasting peace, so that the forest (the paths to other tribes) be as safe for them as their palisaded towns.
www.cynthiaswope.com /withinthevines/penna/native/iroqTuscarora.html   (3633 words)

  
 Kittanning PA Guide with Kittanning Hotels, Resorts and Inns
Kittanning is a borough located in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Pittsburgh.
After Kittanning merged with Wickboro, an estimated 10,000 residents lived in Kittanning in 1914.
It is located on the west bank of the Allegheny River, founded on the site of the 18th century Native American village of Kittanning at the western end of the Kittanning Path.
www.pennsylvaniareservations.com /city/Kittanning.htm   (223 words)

  
 Armstrong County Cooperative Extension -
Kittanning (from the Indian name) was the original county seat.
The County’s long and interesting history dates back to the French and Indian War where Kittanning "was the most notable Delaware Indian village west of the Alleghenies." This village "was the chief settlement...
The Kittanning Trail, Olean Trail and Old Trader’s Path were used by Native Americans and early settlers to reach Fort Armstrong, Fort Green and early blockhouses on the site of present day Freeport.
armstrong.extension.psu.edu /countyinfo.html   (508 words)

  
 The March on the Delaware Indian Village of Kittanning ... Part VI
In Reply to: The March on the Delaware Indian Village of Kittanning...
It is said that when there was likely to trouble from unfriendly Indians passing through, that the friendly Indians would stick a red tomahawk in the tree, thereby warning Hart and he would sleep elsewhere until it was safe.
Re: The March on the Delaware Indian Village of Kittanning...
www.mohicanpress.com /wwwboard/messages12/675.html   (1965 words)

  
 History of Atlantic Village, New Derry
The Indians were followed across the Kiskiminetas toward the Allegheny river, and were overtaken near Kittanning.
It thus was an attractive spot for the savages.
Brodhead ordered these companies to Fort Pitt upon the evacuation of Fort Armstrong (Kittanning), and Fort Crawford; but Lochry thereupon ordered them elsewhere for the immediate protection of the settlements over which he had command.
www.angelfire.com /journal2/atlantic   (5974 words)

  
 Downey Diving - Yellow Creek State Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yellow Creek State Park is located in Indiana County along one of the first "highways" in the state, the Kittanning Path.
This trail was used by the Delaware and Shawnee nations and by early settlers.
Beginning in 1963, the 2,981 acres of park land were purchased by the General State Authority and by the Department of Forests and Waters through the Project 70 park expansion program.
www.downeydiving.com /sites/yellow.htm   (249 words)

  
 The Armstrong Trail
The Kittanning High School "Leo Club" has adopted a section of the Armstrong Trail.
The Leo clubs supervisor is Kim Barnett, an Art Class teacher for West Shamokin and Kittanning High Schools.
Once just a single lane path that traveled an old rail bed along the beautiful Cowanshannock Creek has now been defined.
www.armstrongtrail.org   (169 words)

  
 The Point: "Diondega"
The Allegheny Path, which ran by way of Ligonier, Bedford, Fort Loudon, Chambersburg, Carlisle to Harrisburg (this was perhaps the path which the Shawnee and Delaware followed westward from the Susquehanna.
It is probable that the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers were both used by the Shawnee, as they went southward, when expelled by the Iroquois, before the commencement of the historic period.
See Venango, Kittanning, Chartier's Town, Shannopin's Town, Logstown, Shinga's Town, Kuskuski, Shenango, etc. After the British occupation of Fort Pitt the Indians commenced leaving the villages in the entire region, going westward into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and northward along the upper waters of the Allegheny.
www.clpgh.org /exhibit/neighborhoods/point/point_n491.html   (1487 words)

  
 A Quiet Walk through Kittanning's Riverfront Park
I found Kittanning through a friend in 1996, moved there in 1997, and been there (and here) since.
At the boat launch, the river was dredged to a depth of about 13' so the Gateway Clipper could come upstream and bring tourists, and special events around Kittanning could be scheduled aboard the fleet and the riverboats could pick their passengers up here.
You might want to start here and take the rest of the Kittanning "downtown" Walking Tour, lot's of interesting history, beautiful buildings that are well preserved for the most part.
www.kittanning.com /riverwalk   (1354 words)

  
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Route 422 was a 4-lane road going through Kittanning and then became a 2-lane road about 5 miles outside of that town.
There was a mist in the valley as John crossed the Allegheny River and stopped for a turkey sub (he was peanut butter and jellied out).
Today, US 422 roughly follows the old Kittanning Path, and provides the main access to the park from Indiana and Ebensburg.
home.comcast.net /~cdyanno/August3.html   (474 words)

  
 Kittanning, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kittanning is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Pittsburgh along the east bank of the Allegheny River.
It is located on the east bank of the Allegheny River, founded on the site of the 18th century Native American village of Kittanning at the western end of the Kittanning Path.
The playground on North Jefferson Street used to be The Kittanning Cemetery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kittanning,_Pennsylvania   (669 words)

  
 Wildernet - Yellow Creek State Park
Description - Yellow Creek State Park is located in Indiana County along one of the first "highways" in the state, the Kittanning Path.
Today, U.S. Route 422 roughly follows the old Kittanning Path and provides the main access to the park from Indiana and Ebensburg.
Attractions - Yellow Creek State Park is located in Indiana County along one of the first "highways" in the state, the Kittanning Path.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=PASPYC&CU_ID=1   (857 words)

  
 MK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Formed in September of 1996, the mighty MK decided to forge a new path in the Athens, Ohio music world.
Middle Kittanning released a five song tape in March of 1998, which they recorded with Jon Chinn at Workbook Studios in Columbus, Ohio.
She has a wonderful singing voice, which can be heard both in Middle Kittanning and in the OU Choral Ensemble, when she chooses to sing with them.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~kv527895/MK.html   (354 words)

  
 Kittanning PA Area - Home Improvement + Lawn & Garden
Kittanning, PA All your building needs - from footer to roof.
Kittanning, PA Commercial and residential, roll-off containers, limestone hauling, flatbed hauling, state inspection, light repair, roof jobs, remodeling, clean-up.
Also see the Kittanning Area Community Services Directory for Emergency Services for other listings for Fire Safety Equipment and Alarm Systems.
www.butlerwebs.com /kittanning/homeimprovement.htm   (1840 words)

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