A small watercourse called "Moravian Run" joins the Moshannon Creek near the former mining town of Peale, PA. In July 1772, the Native Moravian congregation camped at this spot along the Great Shamokin Path during their journey from the Moravian settlement of Friedenshütten along the North Branch of the Susquehanna to safety in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. A small child, baptized Nathan, was buried along the path near Moravian Run, imparting a name and a remembrance of the Moravian history of this small waterway that would live on for centuries after the passing of the congregation westward into Ohio. Residents of Cooper Township, PA, still remember and use the name, although many have forgotten the eighteenth-century history of this area.
