Great Minquas Path

The Swedish colony, New Sweden, was founded in 1638, about 20 miles (32.5 km) south of Fort Beversreede, in what is now Wilmington, Delaware.

In 1644, Governor Johan Björnsson Printz built Fort Nya Vasa where the Great Minquas Path crossed Cobbs Creek.

The English in turn conquered the Dutch in 1664, and the tiny colony became part of the 1681 land grant to William Penn.

The Susquehannock were decimated by smallpox, and by long conflicts with European settlers in the Chesapeake Bay region, 1642–52, and the Iroquois to the north, 1658–62.

The trail is marked by Pennsylvania State historical markers in Philadelphia,[6] Delaware,[7] Chester,[8] and Lancaster Counties.

Great Minquas Path, which went from the Susquehanna River (far left) to present-day Philadelphia , on the Schuylkill River
The Great Trail, a 1926 Pennsylvania State Historical Marker in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania , including a beaver sculpture by Albert Laessle