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In
1608, John Smith and his crew explored the
Nanticoke River, then called the Kuskawawaok,
marking their furthest foray inland at the
confluence of the Nanticoke and Broad Creek.
Hundreds of Indians from the area came to
meet the crew and trade with them, and Smith
wrote of what seemed to be thousands of
indigenous people, all with goods to trade.
Of the landscape along the Nanticoke, Smith
wrote, ... the Land but low, yet it may
prove very commodious, because it is but a
ridge of land betwixt the Bay and the maine
Ocean.
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John Smith's original
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