History & local legend
On September 11, 1780, Seneca fighters and Loyalists attacked Northampton County militia beside Little Nescopeck Creek. Lieutenant John Moyer was captured but escaped to report what had happened. Six days later, Colonel Stephen Balliet led a party to the clearing to bury the dead. The encounter became known as the Sugarloaf Massacre.
More than two centuries afterward, a contributor using the name Caspian submitted a ghost story about a housing development near the scene. The account, posted around 2005, described voices heard in the early hours: the cries of fallen soldiers and calls attributed to the attacking force.
A bronze plaque on a boulder in Conyngham commemorates the historical engagement.