UPDATE: In 2025, Dr. Deeanne Wymer and I presented at the NYS Archaeological Association concerning a breakthrough about the top of Spanish Hill being an ancient ceremonial space. Watch this video that explains the work .
Spanish Hill, a 230 feet high, flat-topped glacial moraine located in South Waverly, PA once had earthen embankments with an interior ditch around it's top which were plowed away by the end of the Civil War. For a hundred years since, children and adults alike have searched this place for arrowheads and other artifacts left behind by the mysterious ancient people who once called this place their home.
The hill has many stories to tell about the mighty Susquehannocks who used the hill as a ceremonial space and the Europeans who record-them in 1615, giving us the historical accounts that we have today. Archaeology has also helped to tell us more about the hill and gives us a scientific backing to clear up the myth and lore that surrounded to hill for hundreds of years.
I hope that you enjoy this website where i try to share all that I have leaned in my research over the past twenty years and allow you to look at this region through a lens from our past.
This website is dedicated to the continued research of this site and our prehistoric and early historic past that has captured the imagination of locals for centuries.
"Of many points of historic interest in our valley, perhaps none has attracted more attention or roused more speculation, from the earliest times to the present, than the mound called Spanish Hill. This prominence is due not only to its unusual position (isolated from the hill ranges and regions), but also to its odd outline, the remains of fortifications on the top, and its present name." - ~Louise Welles Murray -"History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens -"1908.