This Tablet Marks the Junction

The junction of the Snow Shoe and Packerville Turnpike with the Erie Turnpike was also known as the road from Reading to Presque Isle, Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike, Bellefonte and Waterford Turnpike, Cream Hill Turnpike, and later Lakes-to-the-Sea Highway. The Cream Hill Turnpike was purchased from its last private owner, R.H. Moore, by Clearfield County in 1886. An early stage coach stood in front of the Eagle Hotel, or Schwem House, located north and opposite this site. One half mile south lay the Indian Trail, also called Mead Brothers' Trail and Old State Road. One half mile southwest, on the south side of the state highway leading from Luthersburg to Troutville, were the Indian Spring, or Big Spring, and Indian Camp Ground, used by Major McClelland and his army in the War of 1812. The place also marks the sesquicentennial of the first known white settlement in Brady Township, established by James Woodside on July 30, 1785.

Luthersburg, Pennsylvania · United States