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The Great Trail of the Minquas or Susquehanna Indians ran from the Susquehanna to the Schuylkill and crossed the present road about this point. Before 1670, it served as the path for their conquest of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians and for trade with the first Dutch and Swedish settlers on the Delaware River. Thousands of beaver skins were carried yearly over this "Beaversrede" or Beaver Road to Fort Beaversrede on the site of Philadelphia and to other neighboring trading posts.
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