For the Penn Proprietors of Pennsylvania, Edward Marsh and his associates carried out the famous Indian Walk of a day and a half from Wrightstown, Bucks County, to near the present Mauch Chunk on September 19-20, 1737. They slept at the end of the first day near Hockendauqua Indian town, which was 1 1/2 miles to the south, and the next morning passed near this point. The survey line of the Walking Purchase was run later in 1737 a half mile east of this point by Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania.