Philadelphia decided to honor Native Americans by building a monument next to I-95 about a mile from where Chief Tamanend and Penn entered a friendship pact known as the Treaty of Shackamaxon.

also known as the Amity Treaty, The Shackamaxon Treaty and Penn Treaty. The box is one of its most valuable assets, Dwyer said. She personally drove it to Washington, D.C. She hopes its inclusion in a ...

Over a four-day span in early March, Native Americans and Quakers, historians and a horticulturist will celebrate what that Great Elm at Shackamaxon – also known as the Penn Treaty Elm – still stands ...

William Penn (1644-1718) was a marked contrast to De la Warr. His Treaty of Shackamaxon (1682) is remembered as the “Great Treaty.” Quakers and German sects and the Lenapes co-existed for ...

The Treaty of Shackamaxon, as it was called, was a legendary Treaty between William Penn and Chief Tamanend of the Lenni Lenape and is depicted in a famous painting by Benjamin West done in 1771 ...

"Thanks to the support of the Penn Treaty Special Services District ... which was created in the park. "Shackamaxon has given all of us so much - especially Almanac," said Grinberg.