Conestoga Town

Conestoga Town in Manor Township, Pennsylvania, was a Susquehannock village at the southern edge of the tribe’s former Susquehanna valley range from the late seventeenth century into the mid-eighteenth century. It is significant as the earliest known surviving settlement of the Susquehannock and one of their last occupied town sites in Pennsylvania after the nation’s collapse in the 1670s. Archaeology has uncovered log-cabin-like houses and cemeteries, indicating a settled community used from the 1690s to about 1725 before shifting within a larger tract. The village also hosted negotiations between Native leaders and Pennsylvania officials, including William Penn, and later Conestoga Town was raided in 1763 by the Paxton Boys.

Pennsylvania · United States