Munsee Indian Village and Chief Capoose

This marker, one of the oldest in the Pennsylvania system, notes ground that was home long before the colony existed. In the mid seventeen hundreds, a band of Munsee people under Chief Capoose established a village here. The Munsee were part of the broader Lenape nation, pushed steadily westward by colonial settlement throughout the seventeen hundreds.

Near this spot stood an apple tree so old and large that it served as a local landmark, until a storm finally blew it down in the late eighteen hundreds. The tree outlasted the village by well over a century. The Munsee were gone long before that, displaced during the conflicts and treaty pressures of the mid-seventeen hundreds.

What remains is the stone and the story.