The Indian Steps Museum, seen here in 2006, sits near the Susquehanna River in Lower Chanceford Township. The York County Conservation Society-run museum houses York County's most comprehensive exhibits about the American Indians. For details, call the museum at 717-862-3948. Background posts: 400 years ago, John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay, White Woman of the Genessee captured 250 years ago in York County and John Smith gave Susquehannocks their name.
Controversy over Lauxmont and Highpoint land brings York County's rich American Indian heritage into the spotlight.
Part of the Lauxmont land now in public hands covers the site of a Susquehannock Indian village.
A museum or some other interpretive center near the village would add to the scant offerings in York County devoted to Indian history... .
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