Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
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On Lackawaxen Scenic Drive at Delaware Drive, on the left when traveling north on Lackawaxen Scenic Drive.
July 22, 1779, 300 Tories and Indians led by Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief, were attacked near Lackawaxen by some 175 settlers. Brant was returning from raiding New York settlements. All but 25 of the patriots were killed. Brant escaped. — — Map (db m23632) HM
On Delaware Drive east of Lackawaxen Road, on the left when traveling east.
Look down at the massive icebreakers protecting the aqueduct's piers. John Roebling designed these plow-like structures to break up ice and deflect debris that flows down the Delaware. In some winters, ice may build up to six feet thick.
This . . . — — Map (db m121411) HM
On Delaware Drive at Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling east on Delaware Drive.
Lackawaxen was an isolated area before the Delaware & Hudson Canal was completed in 1828. Within 20 years the canal company had enlarged the canal and built two new aqueducts in Lackawaxen to improve the efficiency and capacity of its operation. . . . — — Map (db m193658) HM
Near Delaware Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Remains of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's 16-foot-high slackwater dam are visible upstream (before you). It was built in 1828 to form a pool of deep, slow-moving water, which allowed canal boats to safely cross the river. Conflicts . . . — — Map (db m193660) HM
On Delaware Drive east of Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Imagine boats traveling above the river here. After 1848, 50-ton canal boats crossed over the Delaware River at this site. Chief canal engineer Russel F. Lord and civil engineer John A. Roebling designed and built this suspension aqueduct . . . — — Map (db m121303) HM
On Pennsylvania Route 434 at Pennsylvania Route 590, on the left when traveling south on State Route 434.
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 all crops. — — Map (db m23682) HM
On Pennsylvania Route 590, on the right when traveling north.
Humbly and Gratefully
Dedicated
to
The United States of America's
Armed Forces
We honor all who have served
our great nation and ask you,
remember mothers, fathers, wives
husbands, children, family and friends,
they too pay the . . . — — Map (db m121563) WM
On Lackawaxen Scenic Drive, on the left when traveling west.
The prolific author of western novels lived on this property, 1905-1918. Among his books written here was the famed “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1912). He had a lifelong love for this area, and his remains now rest within view of the house. — — Map (db m23642) HM
