The village of Carantouan was placed in our history books by Samuel Champlain. Champlain wrote about all of his travels in the New Word in a 6 volume collection called "Voyages." In this text, Champlain refers to the nation of Carantounnais in the year 1615, which he subsequently sent his young interpreter Etienne Brule to secure 500 warriors for a battle.  Many local historians believe Spanish Hill to be the location where Brule met the Carantouans. 

Just to put this in perspective for you - - the Pilgrims will not have landed on Plymouth Rock(1620) for another 5 years at the time Brule made this trip.... - And that is why this is so important for our history.  Spanish Hill very well was the first place the white man visited in Pennsylvania.

In 1878 General John S. Clark - a noted historian and surveyor - was in search if this place called Carantouannais, and in the end claimed that Spanish Hill was without a doubt the location of Carantouan.

However over the years following Clark's claim, there were others who questioned his findings and overturned them in some historians minds. Since then, the location of Carantouan has been questioned to this day.

Although Spanish Hill's history is vastly rich with or without this connection to Brule, the discrepancies concerning it as the location of Carantouan is still a heated debate. With strong feelings both for and against the location of Carantouan being located at Spanish Hill.

I truthfully have not found anything that convinces me that Spanish Hill was not a site within the nation of  Carantouannais that was described by Champlain... In fact, as learn more and more, it only makes me more convinced that it is.

I am trying to place all of the information here on this website however for you to be able to read and judge this for yourself.  Trust me when I say that this will be more fun than any of your history classes though...There are many "twists and turns" ahead, and many "characters" to meet along the way!