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Blue plaque № 28602

Weissport, PA, United States

Gnadenhuetten. The Moravian mission of this name was built in 1746 to accommodate the growing number of Mohican and Delaware Indian converts. It was the first white settlement in present-day Carbon County. It was burned on November 24, 1755, during a raid by Indians stirred to violence by the French

. Victims of the attack are buried in the Lehighton Cemetery near here.

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