Wyalusing Valley High School - Vallian Yearbook (Wyalusing, PA)

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The Wyoming Valley massacre (July 3-6, 1778) and the Cherry Valley massacre (Nov. 11, 1778) in New York prompted the Sullivan expedition. George Washington ordered General John Sullivan to ascend the Susquehanna Valley and General James Clinton to drive up the Mohawk River in New York to crush the Tory—Iroquois Indian menance. Sullivan's army camped here on August 6-7, 1779 near the site of Frie-denshuetten. The combined forces of Sullivan and Clinton destroyed forty Indian vi Mages and some 160,000 bushels of corn, which brought to an end the Indian terror of the Susquehanna Valley. 8 —

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Getting into the Bicentenial Spirit came easily to W.V.H.S. Mr. Allen Adams and Mrs. Jean Reinhart of the Business Department host the F.B.L.A. Spring Leadership Workshop held at the High School in November, 1975. Students from Wyalusing High also attended wearing Colonial attire. 7

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FRIEDENSHUETTEN Moravian mission founded at Wyalusing Indian town, 1763, by Zeisbercjer. who built a model Indian town. Abandoned in 1772, when pastors Ettwein and Roth led some 200 Indians to the mission of Friedens-stadt on the Beaver River.