Shannopin's Town
Historic Native American village in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shannopin's Town, or Shannopintown, was an 18th-century Lenape (Delaware) town located within the site of modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along the Allegheny River, approximately two miles east from its junction with the Monongahela River. In the early 1700s, British colonial settlers began spreading into western Pennsylvania, forcing Lenape and other American Indian tribes to move further west, settling in the Ohio Country. Shannopin's Town was one of several communities established in western Pennsylvania in the 1720s.[1] The town was largely abandoned during the construction of Fort Duquesne in 1754, although a small community still existed when General John Forbes' troops arrived in September 1758. The community was gone by the time construction on Fort Pitt was started in 1759.
Shannopin's Town | |
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Historic Native American village | |
Coordinates: 40°27′55″N 79°57′55″W | |
State | Pennsylvania |
Present-day Community | Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) |
Founded | before 1730 |
Abandoned | 1759 |
Population | |
• Estimate (1750) | 100−200 |