Murdering Town

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Murdering Town, (also known as Murthering Town) was a small Lenni Lenape village located along the Connoquenessing Creek near present-day Harmony, Pennsylvania, United States. The village was located along Venango Path which ran through what was then the Ohio Country during the French and Indian War. Today, the area is part of Western Pennsylvania.


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In 1753, George Washington passed through Murdering Town while on a mission to Fort Le Boeuf about six months before the French and Indian War began. On December 27, Washington, and his guide Christopher Gist, were shot at by a French allied Native just a few miles from the village. A stone marker near Evans City, PA, marks the spot where the shooting took place.

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