Black Walnut in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Sullivan's March

Photographed by Don Morfe, October 13, 2015

1. Sullivan's March Marker

Inscription. Gen. John Sullivan's army camped on the lowland here Aug. 4, 1779. The fourth encampment between Fort Wyoming and Tioga Point.

Erected 1947 by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and Communities • War, US Revolutionary. In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), and the The Sullivan-Clinton Expedition Against the Iroquois Indians series lists.

Location. 41° 36.853′ N, 76° 7.071′ W. Memorial is in Black Walnut, Pennsylvania, in Wyoming County. It is at the intersection of Roosevelt Highway (US 6) and Blue Stone Road on Roosevelt Highway (US 6). Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Meshoppen PA 18630, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Wyoming Valley

and in Greater Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. 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

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Sullivan Expedition Against the Iroquois Indians, 1779 (here, next to this marker); War Memorial (approx. 0.7 miles away); George H. Sterling (approx. 2.2 miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 3.1 miles away); World Wars Memorial (approx. 3.7 miles

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away); Unreturned Civil War Soldiers (approx. 6.1 miles away); a different marker also named Sullivan's March (approx. 6.8 miles away); Friedenshuetten (approx. 6.9 miles away).

Photographed by Don Morfe, October 13, 2015

2. Sullivan's March Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on November 13, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 679 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on November 13, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.