On Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 501) at Fort Henry Road (Local Road 956), on the left when traveling north on Lancaster Avenue.
Built 1756; garrisoned during the French and Indian War by troops under Capt. Christian Busse. Pennsylvania's major frontier defense east of Ft. Augusta (Sunbury). The site is 3/4 mile to the northwest. — — Map (db m29547) HM
On Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 501) at Pilger Ruh Road, on the right when traveling north on Lancaster Avenue.
"Pilgrim's Rest" was the name given to this spring on the Tulpehocken Path by Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian missionary, on his journey to the Indian towns of Shamokin and Wyoming in 1742. — — Map (db m29551) HM
Near Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 501) at Pilger Ruh Road.
1742
Pilger Ruh (Pilgram's Rest)
Named by Count
Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
who with Conrad Weiser and
Moravian Missionaries rested here
besides this spring (Ludwig's Brunne)
on their way to visit Shawnee Indians
in Wyoming . . . — — Map (db m158052) HM
On Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 501) at Schubert Road, on the right when traveling north on Lancaster Avenue.
Fort Henry, built 1756 to guard Lebanon Valley from Delaware and Shawnee raids, stood 3/4 mile northwest of here on the Tulpehocken Path. The trail came over the mt. near where present road cutting is seen. Round Head overlooks it from east. — — Map (db m29542) HM
On Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 501) near Schubert Road.
An Indian path connecting the Iroquois capital at Shamokin, now Sunbury, with the Tulpehocken Valley, ran northwest through here. It was used by ambassadors to "Brother Onas," i.e., Wm. Penn and his successors. — — Map (db m85726) HM
