Logan's Path was the name of two major Native American

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s in the

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that ran from two locations on the

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in what is now

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to the native village of Kishacoquillas (modern-day Lewistown) on the

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. One branch ran from the Great Island (near modern-day

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) along Bald Eagle Creek and Fishing Creek then overland to Penns Creek. The other branch started at the village of Tishimingo near the mouth of Chatam Run (near the modern village of McElhattan in Wayne Township) then overland south to Kishacoquillas in modern Mifflin County.

References

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