Lapackpicton, Old Profile Rock in Danville

 

• Profile rock, Old Lapackpicton, on the Susquehanna near Danville, Pa.

The Daily Item, 1934

"Indian legends also cluster about the streams and hills of Montour County, Columbia's small but beautiful and fertile western neighbor. Lapackpicton is the hero of some of these. His name is preserved through its association with a bold cliff on the right bank, near Danville, which bears a fancied resemblance to a stern Indian face."

Lovers Leap

"Catawissa has its Lover's Leap—a striking ledge of rock, where it is said Minnetunkee, daughter of the Delaware chief, Lapackpicton, met her death. Her father caught her there with a lover whom he did not favor. He fell over the precipice into the river, and she threw herself after him. But if every story of a "lover's leap" along the Susquehanna is to be accepted , leaping precipices must have been an industry that seriously interfered with the growth of the Indian residents."

From  Seeing Pennsylvania, by John Thomson Faris · 1919

This is very similar to  Indian Rock near Catawissa - and I can't decide if they are the same spot or not?  I know they look very different, but the mountain may have been changed when the road was added?  I just don't know.

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2021/09/indian-head-rock-profile-rock-catawissa.html

Here's another view, showing what may be the first photo at the top, and the second, more pronounced figure, at the bottom