Wyoming-minisink Path
The highway here follows closely the route of the Delaware Indian trail from Minisink Island to Wyoming. Refugees from the Massacre of Wyoming, 1778, camped by the boiling spring, which may be seen in the woods a few yards SW o... hmdb.org
Sylvania Colony
The site of Horace Greeley?s Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was located here. Based on common property holding and equal labor, it failed in 1845 after July frosts had killed al... hmdb.org
Sylvania Colony
The site of Horace Greeley?s Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was located here. Based on common property holding and equal labor, it failed in 1845 after July frosts had killed al... hmdb.org
Fort Delaware
This fort represents the buck-skinned variety of American frontier fortifications. It tells the story of the Delaware Company a group of Connecticut pioneers who established their settlement in the face of every conceivable har... hmdb.org
Pike County Historical Society & Columns Museum
Official county museum offering genealogical and educational services and group tours. Features Lincoln Flag, Hiawatha Stagecoach, C.S. Pierce Room and vintage clothing.Hours are 1-4pm, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday (Apr... 800poconos.com
Fort Decker
Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant burned this stone house owned by Lieutenant Martinus Decker in July 1779 before the Battle of Minisink. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail hmdb.org
Fort Delaware / Narrowsburgs History
The present day Fort, a replica of the frontier lower fort of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, was originally located six miles up river near Milanville, Pennsylvania. Another fort was situated further up river in the Cus... hmdb.org
Barrett Township Historical Society - Cresco Station Museum
The Cresco Station Museum: The society has regular programs at the Cresco Station Museum. From Memorial Day to Columbus Day, there is a monthly performance by local muscians and an Ice Cream Social. The museum is also the... museumsusa.org
Hospital Rock
Hospital Rock is the most historically significant place on the battleground. Once Brant?s men broke the Americans? defensive square late in the afternoon, it was in the shadow of this rock that Lt. Col. Benjamin Tusten, a phys... hmdb.org
The Battle At Minisink
On July 20, 1779, a party of eighty seven Tories and Iroquois Native Americans under the command of Capt. Joseph Brant raided the frontier settlement of Minisink (present day Port Jervis). The raid destroyed homes, farms and mi... hmdb.org
Last Stand On The Rocky Hill
After the initial contact at the river, Col. Hathorn?s remaining force, about forty men, conducted a fighting retreat until they reached high ground. Here they took up a position about two acres in size. Sentinel Rock, where yo... hmdb.org
The Pocono Indian Museum
The sign reads: The Pocono Indian Museum is housed in the former JohnVan Campen Coolbaugh homestead erected about 1840. During the American Civil War the cellar was used to hide slaves on the underground railroad enroute ... waymarking.com
Parker's Glen
Carr's Rock was renamed Parker's Glen after a tragic Erie Railroad accident on April 17, 1868 in an effort to erase the name Carr's Rock from memory. The community peaked at more than 1000 residents around 1900 and was fa... ghosttowns.com
In Memory Of Our Fallen Heroes
Although two attempts to recover the bodies of the fallen at Minisink Ford are recorded as having taken place in the weeks following the battle, it was not until 1822, forty-five years after the event, that the remains still ly... hmdb.org
Minisink Archeological Site
Minisink was the most important Munsee Indian community for much of the 17th and 18th centuries. Archeological resources located here have yielded information on historic contact between Indian and European people in Munsee Count... cr.nps
Fort Burned By Indians
The Machackemech Chapter Daughters of the Revolution of Port Jervis place this tablet to mark the fort burned by the Indians and Tories under the command of Joseph Brant in the year 1779. Rebuilt in 1793 Second Plaque: This hou... hmdb.org