The Gnadenhutten Massacre, Fort Allen & Franklin's Well ~ French & Indian War in PA

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[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

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[@sh393]

A few of my ancestors were with Williamson at Gnadenhutten Ohio. My 7th gear grandfather had gone missing and when the company arrived at Gnaden they had recognized some of his clothes and this instigated the massacre. Unfortunately John Carpenter had willing given the Indians his outfits and showed up later explaining he extended his hinting trip. Heck a welder and Zwisberger are very well known in that area. My father's family is from Newcomerstown Ohio. Rev. Heckewelders autobiography is a great source for early PA/OH indian culture. Great videos, The French and Indian War is my favorite historical era.

[@AnthemBassMan]

I grew up in the village of Tuscarawas, basically right between Gnadenhutten and Schoenbrunn, here in Ohio.

[@sh393]

@@AnthemBassMan Cool. my Dad's family is from Newcomerstown.

[@beverlybelcher3423]

Fascinating historical video. Thank you for sharing.

[@cliffordreinhart3436]

That's my hometown I grew up in lehighton

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Oh Cliff that must be the prettiest cemetery I have ever seen. What a terrible time to have been around. Love this history I am so enjoying it. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care

[@JA51711]

Important to preserve history. Thank you

[@Carolbearce]

Love hearing the history of PA. Thank you for sharing.

[@kimmyles444]

Thanks for letting us know with the maps as I had never heard of the town. The maps add a nice touch to the video. At times history leaves us with some horrible lessons but we need to revisit them in order so that we do not repeat the actions again in the future. As always thanks for posting the video.

[@lindagolden9892]

How charming that cemetery looks with a flowing bed of such beautiful pinkish blooms scattered across it. 🌸

[@buckmartin2525]

My new favorite channel. I am originally from Pennsylvania and every time I watch one of these videos It all comes back to me. Thank you for sharing.

[@R.C.1161]

That southern ridge line of mountains, Lehigh Gap, Little Gap, Smith's Gap up to Wind Gap in into the Delaware water gap is the Appalachian trial I believe.

[@elizabethrowe7262]

Interesting history and good to see preserving areas where once was forts and cemetery etc. Thanks Cliff for sharing.

[@tammyshutter3510]

Thanks again for a great video. I look forward to watching each and every one. Forever the teacher my friend.

[@maxwelltheportlycorgi7299]

There is so much interesting local history in this area. Thank you for sharing :)

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Cliff, a very well narrated & documented video full of historical details. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

[@kellyb1420]

Thanks again Woodsmen. Love it when you visit historical sites. It saddens me deeply to hear about Americas History with our Native Americans. I’m from Delaware and the Story of the Praying Delaware Indians in Ohio is probably the worst part of how the Indians were treated. But these stories need to be told. These monuments need to be protected even with the bloody history connected with them so we don’t repeat the same mistakes from our past again.

[@kennethjacobs5976]

The French & Indian War was very big in Fayette County Pa near Uniontown Pa along Route 40 .

[@user-David-Alan]

That was so cool learning about Ben Franklin being right there. Thanks for the history. Did you know you were about 5 miles from the hundred mile view when you were at the cemetery? Would have been a great day for viewing. Stay well.

[@kateclark7250]

Thank you for the history lesson!

[@JA51711]

Thank you for the great video and to the viewer who sent the map

[@TommyTheCat42]

Here in RI we have what is believed to be the oldest Veterans memorial in the US called 9 Men’s Misery. On March 26, 1676, during King Philip's War where the Narragansett tribe tortured 9 soldiers to death. Very eerie place for sure deep in the woods of Cumberland, RI

[@ritamccartt-kordon283]

Thank you for the History! That is very old! I always find the History of our country enlightening. I don't believe that, to start with, our ancestors were brutal. I believe it came out of being brutalized themselves. I have Native American in my family, so this isn't said lightly.

[@TommyTheCat42]

@@ritamccartt-kordon283 It’s said that one of the soldiers whose name was Benjamin Bucklin was a giant with 2 rows of teeth. Body snatchers in the 18th century went to dig up the grave site for said giant only to be stopped by the townspeople where they were met with torches & pitchforks

[@ritamccartt-kordon283]

@@TommyTheCat42 That's as it should be! I have read and watched about these giants! It is fascinating! If you believe in the Bible, then YES, there were Giants! I DO believe in GOD and the Bible is a wonderful Guidebook. I do believe that man has dabbled with it, but that the majority of it is real. You can find the beginnings of the Giants in Genesis 6. Not sure why they had 2 rows of teeth. I believe that the Smithsonian Institution has some of the skeletal remains of these people.

[@TommyTheCat42]

@@ritamccartt-kordon283 I’m not so much a religious person but I have read the Bible & it is fascinating that giants are believed to be fallen angels. I don’t deny the Bible, it’s more the fact I’ve completely lost my way as far as any form of spiritualism. I love the folklore, I used to go legend tripping all the time with my wife. Unfortunately my life came to a standstill when she past away.

[@cpjc7829]

@@ritamccartt-kordon283 They were called the Nephillim.

[@martyjones9374]

Thank you so much for these wonderful history videos Cliff! Always appreciate you showing the map. Wow! your stickers get found fast. Wish I was closer. Take good care.🥰

[@jwright1253]

Love your history videos

[@twylasapphire888]

Great Vid! Thanks, as always, W.W.!

[@pawadventures5544]

Good video. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻

[@jackielatham4831]

Enjoyed the history lesson very sad as all conflicts are xx

[@johnquinn456]

You.sir do a job that is much needed!

[@Keith58x]

Thanks again for another great trip. A heads up, there are existing ruins of Fort Ralston that is shown on your historic map. They are located between Bath and Northampton, just off of the Nor-Bath Rail Trail.

[@thirzapeevey2395]

Shout out to my cousin, Betsy, in Lehighton.

[@wanderingoutyonder]

Nice! Loved the video!

[@jwon5614]

What a sad thing to o have happened I think the pink flowers are natures way of covering up such an ugly occurrence!!🌺🌷😊🤗💐 Great narrative of history!!!

[@rrich52806]

You have great videos.

[@sharonbartlett2225]

As Joni Mitchell said " They year down paradise and py up a parking lot" in one of her songs.

[@megzdubv2950]

I read about this in one Allen W Eckarts books, maybe That Dark and Bloody River or The Frontiersman or A Sorrow in our Heart. But I’m in the Ohio Valley & we have Moravians up in Coshocton OH w/somewhat a similar story. But my hubby was working in Bethlehem many yrs back so I spent a few weekends up in your parts!!! Very beautiful town & ton of awesome restaurants

[@megzdubv2950]

Ooh plus the frame of the old steel mill which baffled me at first being that where I come from they don’t look that purdy

[@WilliamWeicht]

Susanna Weicht Nitschmann was the lady taken captive. She is one of my ancestors.

[@WilliamWeicht]

@@bronwyn3896 they abused her.

[@kathleenhannigan2487]

as always, thank you for the map

[@Tarasrurallife25]

Thank you I needed a trip to see a cool place under a parking lot lol

[@EHagen10]

Fort Allen was named after Ben's close friend Judge William Allen, for which Allentown was also later named. My late uncle's beige house with brown roof can be seen in the center background at 8:01 - 8:04. My friend was also buried in the north part of this cemetery after falling to his death at Glen Onoko in the early summer of 1977 in 11th grade. As a young lad and teenager, I used to cut the grass of the Temple Beth Israel down the hill from here and their cemetery across the canal in Weissport, which was named for the founder Col. Jacob Weiss, a former officer in the Revolutionary War. I was born in the Gnadenhutten Hospital in 1960. You pronounced it properly. The real name of the local Delaware Indians were the Leni Lenape, properly pronounced Len-ee La-nah-pay). It seems to me that neither the school teachers nor the locals had a proper respect and understanding of their own history. Some years ago the hospital name was changed after being sold to the St. Luke conglomerate. And the once beautiful fairgrounds were eradicated by a new high school complex. Unfortunately, sometimes undesirable changes have to occur (erroneously called "progress"), but there have been numerous malevolent forces -- military orders, occult societies, socialist think tanks, tax free globalist foundations, which have sprouted up over the centuries which are inimical to the freedoms espoused in the U.S. Constitution. And unfortunately, the schools and media and churches have all been complicit in the progression of the immoral, globalist agendas promoted by said forces. In conclusion I can only shout "Maranatha, Adonai Yeshua!!", for it will take a divine being -- our Lord and Savior Jesus, to straighten out the affairs of this sick, evil nation. And though I bear the symbol of the Lutheran Church, I have left that institution long before it began its love affair with the "whore that rides the beast" -- aka the Roman Catholic Institution, because I have learned of the history that was so readily and eagerly squashed by the devil's minions. At least the Junior High School I attended in the Lehighton of the '60's and '70's (formerly the old Senior High school built in 1920) on 3rd St. still contained the portraits of Geo. Washington and Abe Lincoln in EVERY classroom! Not so for the ones built after 1965, which fulfilled the American Humanist Assoc.'s (1933/1973) perverted agendas!!!

[@marysalmon2367]

the locals pronounce it nayden hutten. I work at Gnaden Hutten hospital, now St Luke's.

[@bookwormaddict3933]

Susanna Partsch jumped from the garret of the burning house and fled. She hid in the hollow of tree after fleeing down along the Mahoning Creek and to the Lehigh River--Chapter 6 in Cattle, Cannons, and Campfires by (c)John L. Moore. In the process of reading, creating a PowerPoint, then reviewing the book (c)

[@JA51711]

Bring a replica fort back and make it a historically protected structure

[@Hines57K]

Hey wish I knew ya were in my home town next time your around ill have to try and meet up

[@jwsibelievehikeandfly2272]

Lots of great history

[@Caddl123]

Hi im from Germany and and i can say you the word. Gnadenhütten=In english it would have the name it is "Grace cabin" I think it was a church cabin as a church maybe ??

[@ritamccartt-kordon283]

THANK YOU! That is wonderful to know!

[@videotgrl]

Yes it was. A mission to the Indians.

[@Kernow-Fam]

Visited today - infuriating the well is just there and its crumbling now , zero acknowledgement or care….. humanity infuriates me

[@gregbillman42]

My forefather Hans David Billman was the constable of Allentown in the late 1750s and 60s.

[@ingeborgm6147]

Gnadenhuetten. Your pronunciation is very good, except for the G. Gn is not easy to say for Americans. We do pronounce the G in Gnadenhetten and it sounds just like in Good. You say the G add the n ..Gn .....not Gan-naden but Gnaden. Directly from the G to the n Practice it. :) Gnadenhuetten. Sorry....I wish I were there. you'd have it already.

[@AnthemBassMan]

The Gnadenhutten here in Ohio is pronounced as starting with a J. Until this video, I didn’t think there was another Gnadenhutten, let alone one that also had a massacre. Sad part of history.

[@robertwork3471]

Can you check out the school house massacre?

[@SimplyExploVenturing]

To bad we are losing this type of history

[@megzdubv2950]

No way Easter Eggs!!! Noice, hey if ya ever wanna come see some sights west of ya along the Ohio River which was as far as the settlers were aloud to go back then, except for the Moravians, which didn’t work out so well for them, I know some secret spots.

[@douglaslangella7782]

They pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

[@twylasapphire888]

Shucks, wish I tuned in sooner & went a-sticker-huntin'!

[@jefffetzer8201]

Why is it called Lehighton not gnadenhutten Franklin dropped his glasses in the well.

[@alwilk3360]

Lehighton is named after the Lehigh River. It was incorporated in 1866. I grew up in Lehighton. It was founded because of the railroad.

[@jefffetzer8201]

@@alwilk3360 I thought so but nobody can pronounce gnadenhutten I used to work in the hospital ages ago.

[@alwilk3360]

@@jefffetzer8201 Mt aunt worked at the Gnadenhutten hospital.

[@jefffetzer8201]

@@alwilk3360 1973 internship for college ESSC psych ward

[@megzdubv2950]

That’s phlox growing

[@davidspedding8349]

hey found richard the third under a parking lot

[@markzimmerman7279]

I thought he was pulled up by a tree root that fell over. David S

[@JA51711]

That is correct

[@JA51711]

Flowers honor those that passed

[@megzdubv2950]

Ya gotta start bringing charcoal & paper that way ya can do a rub

[@davidworkman9919]

Map is incorrect , the massacre was 1782

[@megzdubv2950]

Look up Chief Logan if you’re gonna get into the Ohio side of things, should link ya to other places

[@cliffordreinhart3436]

Lol my name is cliff to

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

hi No comparison to new york None I was tr never went back Brian Ireland Sla'inte Sl'an Abhaile

[@41magfan]

It's pronounced jum-en-ville.

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

tks cliff Dont any repleys for months di d someone? yo yo intercept my mail? Brian ireland My American Dreams of gon yr shattered ds year , last o f the mohicans, gt bk n film