August/2010/
Delaware Water
Gap, both as a town and a natural geological
landmark, has been featured as the subject of
numerous pieces of artwork, stories, poems, and
photographs. For years, visitors have been drawn
to this small mountain community. Jesse A.
Graves was no different. Read
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February/2010/
An old tale
from Monroe County’s history recounts the legend
of a love between and Indian princess and an
early Dutch settler. The story, which may or may
not be true, was first recorded in Luke W.
Brodhead’s 1870 book, The
Delaware Water Gap, Its Legends and Early
History. As the story
goes, Princess Winona was the beloved and only
daughter of Chief Wissinoming, the noble leader
of the Minisink. While the chief ruled all of
the land along the Delaware and Susquehanna
rivers to the Atlantic Ocean, the headquarters
of the tribe was located near Shawnee Island and
present-day Smithfield Township, Monroe
County. Read
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November/2009/
Pennsylvania
artist Edward Hicks used the Delaware Water Gap
as a background for some of his
well-known Peaceable
Kingdom paintings.
Hicks was inspired by Isaiah 11:6,
“the wolf
also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and
the young lion and the yearling together; and a
little child shall lead
them.”
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February/2008/
Part II •
Theodore Brodhead was killed and another man,
his brother, Thomas Brodhead, was wounded by
William Brooks and Charles Orme. After being
caught in Cherry Valley a few hours following
the murder, Brooks and Orme were escorted to the
Stroudsburg jail to await trial.
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January/2008/
Part I • On
September 25, 1868, Monroe County citizens were
shocked by a Delaware Water Gap tragedy in which
one man, Theodore Brodhead, was killed and
another man, his brother, Thomas Brodhead, was
wounded. Read
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November/2005/
The Lenni
Lenape were the first inhabitants of the Pocono
Mountains area. Long before European settlers
called Monroe County home, these Native
Americans occupied the land. Indeed, the name
Lenni Lenape translates into “the original
peoples,” and the term Pocono in the native
Lenape tongue means “a river between two
mountains.” Many times, the Lenape were referred
to as Delaware because they lived along the
Delaware River. The Wolf Clan (also known as
Munsee or Minsi) occupied land in what is now
Monroe County. Their area stretched northward
along the Delaware River from the point where
the Lehigh River meets the Delaware in what is
now Easton. Read
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