Dauphin County-based Manada Conservancy will host a February 23 in-person program on The Susquehannocks - Land, Identity, Regional History at the Milton & Catherine Hershey Conservatory At Hershey Gardens, 170 Hotel Rd, Hershey starting at 7:00 p.m.

The Susquehannocks built the largest Indigenous settlements in this region.  They cleared land and farmed on a large scale, aided by excellent local growing conditions and the Susquehanna River as a transportation and communication highway. 

They traded and conducted diplomacy with Swedish and English colonists and other Native Americans before Pennsylvania was chartered. 

Even today, some area residents have strong family traditions of descent from these farmers, builders, and warriors.

In this free educational program, Dr. Tanya Kevorkian (Associate Professor of History at Millersville University)surveys the history of the Susquehannocks from their formation in the 1500s through their heyday in the early to mid-1600s, crisis in the later 1600s, to echoes in the present day. 

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-- Native Plant Sale - In Progress

For more information on programs, initiatives, upcoming events and how you can get involved, visit the Manada Conservancy website.  Follow them on Facebook and Twitter.  Click Here to support their work.

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[Posted: February 8, 2023]

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