Historic Sites in Jeannette, PA

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Bushy Run Battlefield is the only recognized Native American battlefield in Pennsylvania. It is administered by...

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Westmoreland County gets its nickname because for many years it was considered the gateway to the western...

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18th century town was the first county seat west of the Alleghenies, destroyed at the end of the American ...

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

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The Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast highway built in 1913. A group of visionary businessmen from the aut...

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Pioneers arrived 1755-1760 ? Settlement established 1769 158 acres called "Good Purpose" preempted for Lutheran...

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Built 1836 by John Irwin, Nephew of Col. John Irwin, this brick structure served as an inn for stagecoach passengers ...

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This tablet marks the most probable site of General Braddock's nineteenth camp. Here Braddock's army camped July 7, 1...

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Prominent Western Pennsylvania civic and sports leader and owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1933-1988. With his guid...

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On the hill one mile south was located the Washington Camp. This base for Forbes Road was built Nov. 1758 by Col. Geo...

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First gas well in county, and one of world's most productive. Drilled, 1878. Caught fire in 1881, burning for years w...

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

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In 1783, a block house was built by the U.S. Government as protection from the Indians. Adam Reburn was put in ...

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Hanna's Town, founded in 1773 and named for its founder Robert Hanna, acted as the first Seat of Westmore...

Bushy Run Battlefield