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ANTES CREEK & FORT (Antes Creek, Lycoming County)

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ANTES CREEK & FORT (Antes Creek, Lycoming County)

ANTES CREEK & FORT (Antes Creek, Lycoming County) In September, 1700, William Penn's agents bought some land from Andaste Tribal Chief King Wi-daagh. Wi-daagh came to realize that for the few trinkets he received in exchange, he had been swindled by the Englishmen. His spirit has been seen roaming the Nippenose Valley in eternal protest. In another dirty deed done to the Native Americans, Colonel Henry Antes gave the local Indians some blankets that had covered smallpox victims. The early biological warfare trick worked and decimated the Indians. They swore revenge, and it's said that the homes in Ante's Fort have been haunted by the dead Indian's spooks ever since.
 

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