Friedensstadt
Marker #1
Founded 1770 by Christian Delaware Indians brought from upper Allegheny by the Rev. David Zeisberger. Settling on the eastern river-bank on May 3, they moved to the west side about three months later.
Marker #2
Abandoned April 13, 1773, when its inhabitants, with the Rev. John Heckewelder, moved to new towns on the Muskingum in present Ohio. There some of them were massacred, March 8, 1782, by Pennsylvania militia.
Marker is on Pennsylvania Route 18 0.3 miles north of Galilee Road, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
