Historical Highway Markers

Early Settlement

N-9

Two miles east near the river, Richard Coleman planted a frontier settlement and trading post in 1652. By 1660 a church was built, to which every man was required to come armed for protection against the Indians.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928

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