Westmoreland

At the head of the hollow to the south was last home of Gen. St. Clair.

Greensburg, PA

President, Continental Congress, 1787; member, 1785-87.

French and Indian troops defeated a party of 100 Virginians under the command of Captain Thomas Bullet near here on May 22, 1759.

Delmont, PA

Three miles to the south, at Bushy Run, an army under Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Indians, Aug. 5-6, 1763.

Four miles to the north, at Bushy Run, an army under Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Indians Aug. 5-6, 1763.

British and Americans under Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Indians here, August 5-6, 1763, during the Pontiac War, and lifted the siege...

Settling here in the 1770s, Cook became a prominent landholder, jurist, and politician.

On Dec. 19, 1907, an explosion killed 239 men and boys, many Hungarian immigrants, in Darr coal mine near Van Meter.

Due to racial segregation into the mid-20th century, African Americans were excluded from many amusement parks and recreational facilities.

Arnold, PA

An organizer for the United Mine Workers, Fannie Sellins was brutally gunned down in Brackenridge on the eve of a nationwide steel...

Murrysville, PA

On the hill one mile south was located the Washington Camp.

Ligonier, PA

Built by order of General Forbes.

Murrysville, PA

Two and one-half miles to the eastward was located the Washington Camp.

A little south, site of post built 1774 by Pennsylvania German pioneers of Brush Creek and Harrold's settlements.

Built and commanded by Col. Christopher Truby, officer of the revolution, was located 150 yards to the south of this marker.

Ligonier, PA

Built here 1758 as a base of Forbes expedition.

Latrobe, PA

Born and raised in Latrobe, Mister Rogers was the creator, composer, host, and puppeteer of the award-winning TV program Mister Rogers'...

Site of former county seat of Westmoreland County is just east of here.

The steel and coke magnate was born about one mile from here on Dec. 19, 1849.

The longest-operating amusement park in Pa.

Mount Pleasant, PA

Governor of Pennsylvania, 1867-73; born, 1819, in Mt. Pleasant.

Wm. F. Johnston, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1848-52, was born near here, 1808.

Indian village settled by the Delaware soon after their departure from the Susquehanna area in 1727, was located here.

On January 27, 1891, an explosion in the nearby Mammoth No. 1 Mine of the H.C. Frick Coke Company killed 109 coal miners.

On April 2, 1891, at the nearby Morewood Mines of the H.C. Frick Coke Co., sheriff's deputies killed seven strikers; two more died later.

Murrysville, PA

First gas well in county, and one of world's most productive.

Norvelt, PA

Originally called "Westmoreland Homesteads," Norvelt was established April 13, 1934, by the federal government as part of a New Deal...

New Stanton, PA

On November 24, 1896, the U.S. Post Office Department established Pennsylvania's first two rural mail routes here in Westmoreland County.

St. Vincent College, PA

Founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer on the site of a Catholic parish built in 1789, Saint Vincent Archabbey, College, and Seminary was the...

Greensburg, PA

Founded in 1870 by Mother Aloysia Lowe and her companions from Cincinnati, the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill have served over 100...

This Convent and Academy is the oldest institution of the Sisters of Mercy who came from Ireland in 1843.

Latrobe, PA

In 1904 in Latrobe, the first documented Banana Split was created by apprentice pharmacist David Strickler - sold here at the former...

Just northeast of here stood 1 of 5 gates of Greensburg-Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Co. The turnpike, a section of the...

Greensburg, PA

Site of toll house of the Stoyestown-Greensburg Turnpike Road Co. The turnpike, a section of the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh road, was...

George Washington in 1758 set up a camp a mile north of this point while building Forbes Road.

Vandergrift, PA

Hailed by historian Ida Tarbell as America''s "most important industrial town," with homes owned by the workers.

West Newton, PA

Led by Gen. Rufus Putnam, the first settlers to establish American government in the Northwest Territory, built boats here to continue...

Greensburg, PA

Formed on Feb 26, 1773 from Bedford County, it once comprised most of southwest Pennsylvania.

Latrobe, PA

Near the western end of Latrobe was the log house of this antifederalist Congressman, who lived modestly alongside his constituents.

New Kensington, PA

First African American to play quarterback in the modern National Football League and in the Big Ten Conference.