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The Great Shamokin Path was a major Indian route connecting the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers and at this point paralleled the present highway. Long used by Native Americans as a thoroughfare for hunting and trade, it was traveled by Delaware and Shawnee warriors during the French and Indian War. In July 1772, Bishop John Ettwein and 200 Indians with their cows used this portion of the route on their way west to Friedensstadt.
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