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Related Sites
French and Indian War Sites
- National Park Service sites related to the French and Indian War
- Fort Stanwix National
Historic Site, NY
- Other French and Indian War Sites in southwestern Pennsylvania
- Point
State Park, (Forks of the Ohio): Pittsburgh, is the site of
Fort Prince George, built by Dinwiddie's Virginians in 1754; Fort
Duquesne, constructed by the French that same year; and Fort Pitt,
a huge star fort built by the British after Fort Duquesne was abandoned
in 1758. An original blockhouse remains.
- Fort
Ligonier, Westmoreland County, served as a staging area for
the 1758 Forbes Campaign, which resulted in the capture of Fort Duquesne.
Fort Ligonier was reconstructed in 1954, following extensive acheological
excavations.
- Fort
Bedford Park and Museum, Bedford County, is located on the
site of Fort Bedford, which served as a supply base for General Forbes'
army during its march to Fort Duquesne. Like Forts Pitt and Ligonier,
Fort Pitt was besieged during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763.
- Bushy
Run Battlefield, Westmoreland County, marks the site where
Colonel Henri Bouquets small British army defeated Ottawa Chief Pontiac's
confederation of Indian tribes in August 1763. This victory also ended
the seige of Fort Pitt and marked the end of Pontiac's Rebellion.
- Other French and Indian War Sites
- The
Fort at Joseph Edwards, Fort Edwards is the site of a Virginia
frontier fort of the French and Indain War in Col. George Washington's
chain of frontier forts. It is at Joseph Edwards's land grant on the
Cacapon River in Hampshire County, now West Virginia.
Frontier
forts is a site dedicated to the early years of the French
and Indian War in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia
and to the role of Col. Washington in the the War.
- Fort
St. Joseph, Niles, Michigan, is the fort from which Jumonville
was dispatched and lived.
- Other George Washington Sites
- George
Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
Westward Expansion and Transportation
- National Park Service sites
- Allegheny Portage
Railroad National Historic Site, PA
- Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal National Historical Park, WV-MD
- Other sites
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield is located along the National
Road Heritage Corridor (US
Route 40)
Area Attractions
- Tourism Information
- Fort Necessity NB is in the Laurel
Highlands of Southwestern Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
We are a member of the Greater
Pittsburgh Museum Council.
- Nearby Attractions
- Ohiopyle
State Park, PA Route 381, ten miles north of Farmington;
- Fallingwater (a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), PA Route 381,
12 miles north of Farmington;
- Kentuck Knob (another Frank Lloyd Wright house), 6 miles north of
Chalk Hill, PA;
- Laurel Caverns, six miles off US Route 40 west, of Farmington;
- National Park Service sites in Southwestern Pennsylvania
- Friendship Hill
National Historic Site
Flight 93 National Memorial
Johnstown Flood National
Memorial
- Allegheny Portage
Railroad National Historic Site
- National Park Service sites within three hours
- New River Gorge
National River, WV
- Gettysburg National
Military Park, PA
- Eisenhower National
Historic Site, PA
- Catotcin Mountain
Park, MD
- Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal National Historical Park, WV-MD
- Harpers Ferry National
Historical Park, WV-MD-VA
- Antietem National
Battlefield, MD
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