THE OLD BRADDOCK ROAD
THIS TABLET MARKS A WELL PRESERVED SCAR OF THE OLD BRADDOCK
TRAIL, ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC PIONEER HIGHWAYS IN ALL AMERICA.
HERE, NEMACOLIN AND HIS ASSOCIATES BLAZED THE TRAIL THAT BECAME
A NATIONAL HIGHWAY
HERE, PASSED THE LADEN PACK HORSE TRAIN THAT CARRIED THE
GIST SETTLERS TO THE FIRST ANGLO-SAXON SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE
ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS
HERE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE YOUTHFUL AMBASSADOR, WITH
HIS ESCORT PASSED ON HIS WAY WITH A MESSAGE TO THE FRENCH FORTS.
OVER THIS ROUTE MARCHED CAPTAIN WILLIAM TRENT WITH HIS VIRGINIA
SOLDIERS EQUIPPED TO BUILD THE FORT AT THE "FORKS OF THE OHION
NOW PITTSBURGH.
AFTER BEING DRIVEN OFF BY THE FRENCH, THE SAME SOLDIERS,
UNDER ENSIGN WARD, RETREATED BY THIS ROAD.
OVER THIS GROUND, ON THAT DARK AND RAINY NIGHT, MARCHED
COLONEL GEORGE WASHINGTON WITH HIS VIRGINIA TROOPS TO ATTACK
JUMONVILLE IN HIS HIDDEN CAMP FOUR MILES NORTH OF HERE.
THAT MARCH ENDED IN THE FIRST CLASH OF ARMS WHICH OPENED
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR THAT ENDED IN DRIVING FRANCE FROM AMERICA
OVER THIS ROUTE CAME THE FRENCH AND INDIANS TO ATTACK WASHINGTON
AT FORT NECESSITY, ONE MILE EAST OF HERE.
HERE, PASSED IN PROUD ARRAY THE ILL FATED BRADDOCK ARMY
AND BY THIS ROUTE RETURNED ITS BLEEDING REMNANT AFTER THE DISASTROUS
DEFEAT
BY THIS FRONTIER ROAD, UNDER GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN, CAME
THE SOUTHERN WING OF THE U. S. ARMY THAT QUELLED THE WHISKEY
INSURRECTION.
HERE, FOR MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS THROUGH THIS CONVERGING
POINT FLOWED THE FRONTIER TRAVEL THAT PREPARED A WESTERN HAVEN
FOR CIVILIZATION. THIS WHEEL WORN CHASM IS A VENERABLE MONUMENT
TO A PAST AGE, THE LAST SPAN THROUGH A MOUNTAIN FASTNESS THAT
LINKED THE EAST WITH THE WEST.
ERECTED BY THE FORT NECESSITY CHAPTER
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1931
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