Some Moravians decided to stay, and in 1782, they built a settlement (St.

The Moravian missionaries were sent from their settlements in Bethlehem to the site of the Sugarloaf Massacre to bury the dead soldiers. Anthony's Wilderness', it eventually became known as 'Hazel Swamp', a name which had been used previously by the Native Americans.

Though the Moravians called the region 'St. This particular stretch of 'Warrior's Trail' had an abundance of hazel trees. The Moravians, a Christian denomination, had been using 'Warrior's Trail' since the early 18th century after the Moravian missionary Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf first used it to reach the Wyoming Valley. In all, 15 men were killed on September 11, 1780, in what is now known as the Sugarloaf Massacre. This route connects the Lehigh River in Jim Thorpe (formerly known as Mauch Chunk) to the Susquehanna River in Berwick.Ĭaptain Klader's men made it as far north as present-day Conyngham, when they were ambushed by Tory militiamen and members of the Seneca tribe. They traveled north from the Lehigh Valley along a path known as 'Warrior's Trail' (which is present-day Pennsylvania Route 93). Because of reports of Tory activity in the region, Captain Daniel Klader and a platoon of 41 men from Northampton County were sent to investigate. During the height of the American Revolution, in the summer of 1780, British sympathizers (known as Tories) began attacking the outposts of American revolutionaries located along the Susquehanna River in the Wyoming Valley.

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