Saucunk

Saucunk stood where the Beaver River meets the Ohio, its Lenape name meaning “at the mouth.” Also known as King Beaver's Town, it was associated with the Lenape leaders Tamaqua and his brother Shingas. In the 1750s Lenape, Shawnee and Mingo people gathered here in a town of log houses. During the French and Indian War, warriors from the Ohio country raided colonial settlements to the east. As the balance of the war shifted, many Lenape left Saucunk and neighbouring towns for communities farther west in 1759.

The later city of Pittsburgh lies nearby.