Conestoga Town
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Conestoga Town is an historic archaeological site memorializing the Native American tribal village which stood on the site from the late 17th into the mid-18th-century; it is located at what is now Ma
Overview from Safe Harbor Road
Marker on the roadside
Plaque
Paxton Boys
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The Paxton Boys, also known as the Paxtang Boys or the Paxton Rangers, were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in December 1763. This group of vigi
Conestoga Town
…consisted of a Scotch-Irish and English core, bordering on both sides of that river, surrounded by scores of German-Swiss on all sides. In 1763, the Paxton Boys raided a later Conestoga Town village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973…
1841 lithograph depicting the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Conestoga at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in December 1763
Pennsylvania Associators assemble after news of the Paxton Boys marching on Philadelphia, published 1764.