Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
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Lackawaxen is in Pike County
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
