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The French & Indian War - 1750's in Pennsylvania

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Tour Date:  Friday (evening) October 19 -

                   Sunday, October 21, 2012

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The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into a true world war known as the Seven Years' War, and the French and Indian War came to be regarded as the North American theater of that global war. In Europe, there is no specific name for the North American part of the war. The French and Indian War name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them, although Great Britain also had Native allies. 

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This global conflict tore apart colonial Pennsylvania between 1754 and 1764. This decade of warfare involved a variety of peoples who fought in a variety of ways, from European armies that cut roads through the Pennsylvania wilderness,  to build forts on strategic waterways, to Native Americans who conducted raids against colonial homesteads for scalps and captives, to colonial militias and vigilantes who attacked and in some cases murdered Indians regardless of their political sympathies.

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The new 2012 Penn Trails French & Indian War Bike Tour will travel through beautiful central Pennsyvania countryside and small towns, in the Cumberland Valley and the base of Tuscarora Mountain.  With your expert program guide and evening presentations, you will see and hear the story not of vast British armies clashing for victory, but rather the story of colonial soldiers, settlers and indigenous peoples fighting for their homes and for their very lives.  The Conocheague Institute serves as our focal point of the Penn Trails French & Indian War Bike Tour.  Located at Rock Hill Farm one mile southwest of Welsh Run, the Institute has a special focus on exploring the history of the clash of cultures in the “Backcountry,” and the conflicts here from the French and Indian War through the American Revolution.Ride Details for this unique Road Bicycling Tour to be published here by early February.   The unique and fascinating site includes the Davis-Chambers house built around a c.1752 two story log house, Negley cabin c. 1806, library and grounds with exhibit panels and an old Welsh graveyard and wetlands.

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TOUR DETAILS