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UPPER ALLEGANY MUZZLE LOADERS

33nd Annual Black Powder Shoot and Primitive Rendezvous

Memorial Day Weekend - May 26-29, 2007

contact Information:

Vennie Hotchkiss, President at: (814) 489-3489

Bob Willyoung, Booshway at:

(814) 563-9225

Upper Allegany Muzzleloaders

Vennie Hotchkiss, President at: (814) 489-3489

Ron Sherred, Vice-President at: (814) 664-7279

The black powder shoot and rendezvous is held at the Upper Allegany Muzzleloader Club grounds on Brokenstraw Creek near Pittsfield, PA. This historically significant area has known human habitation since the late Hopewell period, and is a short distance upstream from Buckaloon, the former site of an Iroquois and Delaware village once located at the confluence of Brokenstraw Creek and the Allegheny River. Buckaloon was first mentioned in Bonnecamp's Jesuit Relation of Celoron's expedition of 1749, in which the French attempted to claim the region for New France.

The region saw the presence of American troops under General Sullivan and Colonel Brodhead during Sullivan's 1779 campaign to punish the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Iroquois, who sided with the British in the Revolutionary war. During this campaign, Buckaloon was attacked and burned by Sullivan's troops; thereby reducing the threat of war parties to the Pennsylvania frontier.

Today the sound of flintlocks can once again be heard in the forested valley of Brokenstraw Creek; though they are now fired in the spirit of fun and competition, and not in anger!