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Site of Copus Massacre Monument

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The site marks the first white settler in Mifflin Township, who arrived in 1809, was a friend of Johnny Appleseed, served as a missionary to the Greentown Indians from 1809 to 1812, and was massacred by Indians on September 15, 1812. The Copus Monument was dedicated on September 15, 1882.
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