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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 26, 2005
Caption: Inscription
Additional Description: On This Historic Spot
The Hunting Ground
Of The Friendly Indian
Nemacolin
This Monument
Is Erected And Dedicated
To The Memory Of Our
Pioneer Mothers
“The events of this inscription precede the defeat of Braddock. In 1749 the Ohio Company, also known as The Ohio Company of Virginia, was chartered. Made up of wealthy Virginian planters, speculators and London merchants, this organization was granted 200,000 acres of land in West Virginia by King George II. In 1753 King George granted them an additional 350,000 acres. The purpose of this project was to colonize the Ohio Valley. However, because of the French and Indian War, this venture at this time was a failure but the efforts made to implement its objectives changed the course of history.

One of its first endeavors was to engage Colonel Thomas Cresap of Old Town, Maryland to blaze a trail from Will's Creek over the Allegheny Mountains to what is now Pittsburgh. Colonel Cresap persuaded the elderly Delaware Indian Chief Nemacolin to go with him and point out the way.

Colonel Cresap did not build the road -just indicated it by marking the trees and leaving stone piles as reminders. He named this route ‘Nemacolin's Path.’ It was to become a well known and much traveled road.” — Fern Iola Bauer.
Submitted: July 2, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p387420
File Size: 1.280 Megabytes

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