Wyoming-Minisink Path
Dingman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
Here, an important Indian trail connecting the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers ascended Indian Point to Powwow Hill. The path was used by Delaware Indians in their migration to the Wyoming Valley, and later by Connecticut settlers.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
This spot marks where an old Native trail climbed from the Delaware River toward Powwow Hill on its way to the Susquehanna, tying together two of Pennsylvania's great watersheds. The Delaware (Lenape) people traveled it during their westward movement toward the Wyoming Valley, pushed in part by colonial pressure on their eastern homelands. Later, Connecticut settlers hungry for land followed the same ridgeline path, layering a new chapter of migration atop an ancient one.
Why it matters
The trail captures a hinge moment in early America — Indigenous peoples being displaced westward along the very routes that then guided colonial settlers into contested ground.
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Wyoming-Minisink Path
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The modern highway here traces an old Delaware Indian path that ran from Minisink Island on the river to the Wyoming Valley. Along it, in July 1778, terrified refugees fled the Massacre of Wyoming — a bloody Revolutionary War raid by Loyalist and allied Iroquois forces — pausing to camp beside a bubbling spring still visible in the woods nearby. The path carried both ancient travelers and the human wreckage of the frontier war.
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