Weissport (Pa.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0203
Abstract
This manuscript notebook includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor’s measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1759-1860; 1759, 1770, 1850, 1860
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections