Great Minquas Path

Great Minquas Path, which went from the Susquehanna River (far left) to present-day Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River
The Great Trail, a 1926 Pennsylvania State Historical Marker in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, including a beaver sculpture by Albert Laessle

Great Minquas Path, or The Great Trail, was a 17th-century trade route that ran through southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna River, near Conestoga, to the Schuylkill River, opposite Philadelphia.[1] The 80-mile (130 km) east-west trail was the primary route for fur trading with the Minquas (or Susquehannock) people. Dutch, Swedish and English settlers fought one another for control of it.[2]

  1. ^ Paul A. W. Wallace, Indian Paths of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania and Museum Commission, 1971)[1]
  2. ^ Great Minquas Path from ExplorePAhistory.com