Fayette

Point Marion, PA

Jeffersonian diplomat, financier, and statesman, Gallatin was the longest serving US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801 to 1814.

Smock, PA

In 1817 ironmaster Isaac Meason and Welshman Thomas Lewis built a puddling furnace and bar rolling mill here using a process from Wales...

Connellsville, PA

Nearby was the house of this collector of excise tax on whiskey.

Gen. Edward Braddock was buried here in 1755, after his disastrous defeat and death.

Jumonville, PA

General Braddock's army ascended the ridge east of this point and advanced toward Gist's Plantation.

Summit, PA

General Braddock's tenth camp, June 26, 1755, on the march to Fort Duquesne, was at the Half King's Rock, one mile NE of here.

General Braddock's twelfth camp, June 28, 1755, on the march to Fort Duquesne, was north of here, near the Youghiogheny River.

General Braddock's eighth camp, June 24, 1755, on the march to Fort Duquesne, was about half a mile SW.

Brownsville, PA

John A. Brashear, astronomer, educator, was born here 1840.

Brownsville, PA

Once called Redstone Old Fort, its historic past includes the Ohio Company storehouse, 1754, and Fort Burd, 1759.

W of Perryopolis, PA

The bee-hive ovens nearby are typical of the region.

Connellsville, PA

Hero of Indian wars, made his home about a half mile from Connellsville after 1766, and was Washington's land agent.

Connellsville, PA

In memory of Colonel William Crawford, born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1732.

Uniontown, PA

Located in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, the region's abundant high quality Pittsburgh vein coal yielded superior coke, used to...

Brownsville, PA

An integral part of the National Road, this was the first metal arch bridge in the United States, built 1836-39.

Connellsville, PA

Motion picture pioneer, born in Connellsville.

Uniontown, PA

Formed September 26, 1783 from Westmoreland County.

Leith-Hatfield, PA

Built by Thomas Gaddis about 1764 on the Catawba trail, as a place of refuge from the Indians.

Masontown, PA

Built as a blockhouse in 1774-78 by John Mason.

Col. George Washington on May 29, 1754 began a fort here.

Was located about 400 yards to the south in the Great Meadows.

Uniontown, PA

Soldier and statesman, born Dec. 31, 1880, on this site.

Christopher Gist, the Ohio Company surveyor who went to Fort LeBoeuf with Washington, settled here in 1753.

Uniontown, PA

In 1808 Finley obtained the first US patent for a suspension bridge.

The Georgian manor on the hill was built 1802 by Isaac Meason.

This building erected in 1816 was once a famous hostelry on the National Road.

Hopwood, PA

From the creation of the National Road in 1806 until the advent of the railroads in the 1850s, thousands of travellers crossed Chestnut...

Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin.

New Geneva, PA

Half a mile east of here, 1794-1797, the first glass factory west of the Alleghenies was founded by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the...

Brownsville, PA

SIDE 1 (Steamboat Enterprise): Fourth steamboat built in Western Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, 1814.

One of the six original toll houses on the Cumberland or National Road.

Uniontown, PA

Founded by Henry Beeson, who built a blockhouse on site of the county jail in 1774.

Uniontown, PA

Founded by Henry Beeson, who built a blockhouse on site of the county jail in 1774.

Connellsville, PA

From 1944 until 1946, about 800 women of all ages met 600,000 troops who passed through the B&O Railroad station.