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Iroquois Main Road

 
 
Iroquois Main Road Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Wintermantel, June 13, 2025
1. Iroquois Main Road Marker
Inscription. An important path for Native Americans, including the Catawba and Cherokee, traveling south from Ichsua (Olean, NY) passed near here. At Kittanning the path forked, one branch going to the Mississippi and the other to the Carolinas.
 
Erected 2020 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and CommunitiesRoads & Vehicles.
 
Location. 41° 33.721′ N, 78° 51.419′ W. Marker is near Kane, Pennsylvania, in Elk County. It is in Highland Township. It is on Pennsylvania 948 1.3 miles east of Pennsylvania Route 66. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Kane PA 16735, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Pennsylvania Wilds. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, in Appalachia, and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy
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and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Patrolman Steven M. Jerman Memorial Park (approx. 6.7 miles away); Kane Law Enforcement Memorial (approx. 7 miles away); Kane Veterans Memorial (approx. 7.1 miles away); Kane, a Star in the Forest (approx. 7.1 miles away); Thomas L. Kane (approx. 7.1 miles away); Rose Kocjancic Paar (approx. 7.1 miles away); Mary Ulyan Bizzak (approx. 7.1 miles away); Seneca Spring (approx. 7.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Kane.
 
Iroquois Main Road Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mike Wintermantel, June 13, 2025
2. Iroquois Main Road Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 13, 2025. It was originally submitted on June 13, 2025, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 468 times since then and 59 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on June 13, 2025, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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