Celebrating both Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day in York County [Video]

(WHTM) — In Pennsylvania, Monday, Oct. 14, is officially both Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day.

The Zimmerman Center for Heritage in York County invited the public to take an educational hike near Wrightsville. The 45-minute hike led to a village once occupied by the Susquehannock Tribe.

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What was the lesson?

“That they learn that there were native American people here living in York and Lancaster County and there are still today and be able to learn more about the people that lived here before us and continue to do so,” Susquehanna National Heritage Area Abigail Teaford said.

The Susquehannock Tribe lived at the York County Village in the mid-1600s.

Meanwhile, the Knights of Columbus in East York marked Columbus Day by promoting 51 of the organization’s members to what’s called the Fourth Order, their highest level.

Nationally, the Knights of Columbus date back to 1882.

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