Tionesta

Tionesta Creek winds through the forests of the Allegheny uplands before joining the Allegheny River. At its mouth stood Goshgoshing, a community inhabited largely by Munsee people in the eighteenth century. Moravian missionaries established a mission there in 1767, then moved it across the river to Lawunakhannek in 1769. The following year the mission moved again, to the Kuskusky towns farther west, as Indigenous families and missionaries sought places to live amid changing pressures in the Ohio country.