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Kittanning (Lenape Kithanink; pronounced [kitˈhaːniŋ]) was an 18th-century Native American village in the Ohio Country, located on the Allegheny River at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania. The village was at the western terminus of the Kittanning Path , an Indian trail that provided a route across the Alleghenies between the Ohio and ...
The Kittanning Expedition, also known as the Armstrong Expedition or the Battle of Kittanning, was a raid during the French and Indian War that led to the destruction of the American Indian village of Kittanning, which had served as a staging point for attacks by Lenape warriors against colonists in the British Province of Pennsylvania.
Kittanning – Lenape kithanink 'on the main river': kit 'great, large, big' + hane 'swift river from the mountains' + -ink locative suffix, [88] "the big river" or "the main river" being an epithet for the Allegheny-cum-Ohio, according to John Heckewelder.
Armstrong County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,558. [2] The county seat is Kittanning. [3] The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties.
British and French Forts, 1753–1758, and the routes of the two British campaigns to take the forks of the Ohio. The first Europeans arrived in the 1710s as traders. Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a manuscript in 1717, and later that year European traders established posts and settlements in the area. [10]
Kittanning (/ k ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ ŋ / ki-TAN-ing) is a borough in and the county seat of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] It is situated 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Pittsburgh , along the east bank of the Allegheny River .
Former President Donald Trump gave a Pennsylvania mom of three $100 towards her groceries while promising to lower supermarket prices if he’s re-elected to the White House during a campaign stop ...
Kittanning Path, a major east-west Native American trail used during the 18th century in Western Pennsylvania, United States Kittanning Citizens Bridge , a through truss bridge in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States