Murdering Town
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Murdering Town, (or Murthering Town) was a small Lenni Lenape village located along the Connoquenessing Creek near present-day Harmony, Pennsylvania. The village was located along the Venango Path which ran through what was then the Ohio Country during the French and Indian War. Today, the area is part of Western Pennsylvania.
[edit] History
In 1753, George Washington passed through Murdering Town while on a mission to Fort Le Boeuf about six months before the French and Indian War began. On December 27, Washington, and his guide Christopher Gist, were shot at by a French allied Native just a few miles from the village. A stone marker near Evans City, Pennsylvania marks the spot where the shooting took place.
