~Aboriginal Sites in and  Near "Teoga," Now Athens, Pennsylvania, Louise Welles Murray 1921

The Tioga Point Museum is the greatest source of information concerning any historical documentation of archeological finds in our area (Tioga Point and surrounding areas) during the great surge of historical and archeological research done in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  Artifacts and "large" skeletons were uncovered by unskilled farmers plowing fields and laborers digging pipelines in the late 1800's as well as by amateur and professional archeologists who rushed in when a "find" had been announced. Some of the actual remains from those burial sites were ruined when uncovered by unskilled hands in the excitement, while others were preserved and sent out to larger museums or actually saved and are still housed in our own Tioga Point Museum.

The following link is to a paper given to me to post on this website by the Tioga Point Museum. I believe that anyone who reads this article will understand that the "gyant-like" skeletons found here were indeed kin of those Susquehannocks described by Captain John Smith in 1608 on the Susquehanna river near the Chesapeake Bay. Thus proving that the Susquehannocks (Andastes) were in our area and had village sites in and around the Tioga Point Area as is quite possibly illustrated on the Champlain map of 1632:

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Use the following links to read more about the giant skeletons that were found:

• Towanda Daily Review - 1897 - "The Grave of a Giant"

• Aboriginal Sites in and  Near "Teoga," Now Athens, Pennsylvania, 1921

• History Of Waverly, Chapter IV, page 7

• Moorehead - Susquehanna River Expedition 1918 - page 49

• Louise Welles Murray -"History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens -"1908.

• Pennsylvania Archeologist, Volume 61  No. 2  September 1991

• Captain John Smith's Account of the Susquehannocks

• 1882 - Sepulchre Discovered with Giant Skeleton

• Why do we care about these skeletons and the location of the burial sites?
• Author's Note Concerning the Giant Skeletons found in the Area of Tioga Point
• The Story and the TRUTH Surrounding  the "Horned Skeletons"