Bainbridge became home to the Conoy and Nanticoke tribes in the early 1700s when English settlers pushed them out of their original homes. Before the move, the Conoys lived in the area that is now Baltimore, and the Nanticokes lived across the Chesapeake Bay in what is now Delaware. In 1632, there were about 2,500 among the tribes, and by 1697 there were only about 300, due to diseases brought to America by the English.
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History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania1883Read the page →
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Bainbridge Cemetery.— At an early day interments Wire made ill a cemetery within the present limits of the town of Bainbridge, but wdien the town was laid out simie of the streets were made to pass through this burial-place, and two stables now stand on a purtion ut il. .Vnother graveyard was on a hill one-fourth ot' a mile north from the town, on land now uwiied by Cliii-tiau Herr, but this has cease<l to
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An authentic history of Lancaster County1869 · page 352Read the page →
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The P. O. are at Bainbridge and Falmouth. The Conestogo Creek is the western boundary of the township, and the Conoy Creek entering near its Eastern boundary, fiows into the Susquelianna at Bainbridge. "The workmen on section No. 18 of the Canal, about two miles east of Bainbridge came upon one end of an old Indian burial ground. The bones had so completely gone to dust, that they could only be distinguished from the natural soil by a difference in color, A great many articles of use and ornament were discovered; there were crocks, hatchets, tomahawks, arrow heads, bullets, buck shot, thimbles, beads, pipes, &c. The pipes are made of clay, and are spoken
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Jolm Harris, a native of Yorkshire, who commenced, afterwards, a settlement at Paxton, first made an attempt to settle near the mouth of Conoy creek, not far from the present site of Bainbridge. Harris did not think this a propitious spot ; for, it appears, this place was frequented by more northern Indians, on their southern excursions, which excited considerable alarm.* Governor Spottswood, of Virginia, in a letter to the
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Along the line of Conoy township were seven principal fishing stations, four of w Inch were islands. At the station immediately opposite to Bainbridge it is remembered that five tbou-and three hundred shad . were once taken at a single haul.
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