Wyoming Valley
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
WYOMING VALLEY c.20 mi (30 km) long and 3 to 4 mi (4.8 6.4 km) wide, in Luzerne co., NE Pa., through which flows the Susquehanna...allies; nearly 400 men, women, and children were killed. The massacre is described in Thomas Campbell s poem, Gertrude of Wyoming (1809). In 1782 a Continental Congress court of arbitration decided to grant the land in favor of Pennsylvania, but the...