Minguannan Indian Town Marker
London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
Minguannan Indian Town Was Located Here
The Story
Long before Chester County's rolling farmland was surveyed into townships, this ground along the streams of the lower Delaware Valley was home to the Lenape (Delaware) people, whose villages clustered near reliable water and fertile bottomland. Minguannan was one such Native town, remembered in the place-names and marker sites that dot this corner of southeastern Pennsylvania. As English and Welsh settlers pressed into the region in the late 1600s and 1700s, communities like this one were gradually displaced, their inhabitants moving west and north. The simple marker standing here today keeps alive the memory of a settlement that predates the colony William Penn founded around it.
Why it matters
It marks the deep Indigenous history beneath one of America's earliest colonial frontiers, reminding visitors that Penn's Pennsylvania was built atop long-established Lenape homelands.
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