Editing Hazleton, Pennsylvania (section)

===Sugarloaf massacre===
{{Main|Sugarloaf Massacre}}
During the height of the [[American Revolution]], in the summer of 1780, British sympathizers (known as [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Tories]]) began attacking the outposts of American revolutionaries located along the [[Susquehanna River]] in the Wyoming Valley. Because of reports of Tory activity in the region, Captain Daniel Klader and a [[platoon]] of 41 men from [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania|Northampton County]] were sent to investigate. They traveled north from the [[Lehigh Valley]] along a path known as "Warrior's Trail" (which is present-day [[Pennsylvania Route 93]]). This route connects the [[Lehigh River]] in [[Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania|Jim Thorpe]] (formerly known as Mauch Chunk) to the [[Susquehanna River]] in [[Berwick, Pennsylvania|Berwick]].

Captain Klader's men made it as far north as present-day [[Conyngham, Pennsylvania|Conyngham]], when they were ambushed by Tory militiamen and members of the [[Seneca tribe]]. In all, 15 men were killed on September 11, 1780, in what is now known as the [[Sugarloaf massacre]].

The [[Moravian Church|Moravians]], a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Religious denomination|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. This particular stretch of "Warrior's Trail" had an abundance of [[hazel]] trees. Though the Moravians called the region "St. Anthony's Wilderness", it eventually became known as "Hazle Swamp", a name which had been used previously by the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. The Moravian missionaries were sent from their settlements in Bethlehem to the site of the Sugarloaf Massacre to bury the dead soldiers. Some Moravians decided to stay, and in 1782, they built a settlement (St. Johns) along the Nescopeck Creek, which is near the present-day intersection of [[Interstate 80|Interstates 80]] and [[Interstate 81|81]].<ref>[http://www.hazletonhistory.8m.com/history_origins.htm Greater Hazleton Historical Society<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216010644/http://www.hazletonhistory.8m.com/history_origins.htm |date=2007-12-16 }}</ref>