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Cornplanter home with family
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In this photograph, an Indian family poses outside a typical home on the Cornplanter Tract in the mid 1900s.

Credit: The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Archaeology

Cornplanter died in 1836, but his descendants continued to live on the Cornplanter Tract until their forced removal to make way for a dam on the Allegheny River in 1959. In this photograph, an Indian family poses outside a typical home on the Cornplanter Tract in the mid 1900s.

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