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Arthur St. Clair (1737-1818)

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President, Continental Congress, 1787; member, 1785-87. First Governor of the Northwest Territory (lying between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers), 1787-1802. Earlier, he was Westmoreland County Court Justice after the county’s formation in 1773, and Major General in the Revolutionary War, 1777. A native of Thurso, Scotland, he lived his last years on Chestnut Ridge, near Ligonier, and is buried just Read more...

Fort Allen

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A little south, site of post built 1774 by Pennsylvania German pioneers of Brush Creek and Harrold’s settlements. A refuge from the Indians in Dunmore’s War and American Revolution. (Dedicated: Tuesday, December 10, 1946) Read more...

Fort Allen – PLAQUE

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Built and commanded by Col. Christopher Truby, officer of the revolution, was located 150 yards to the south of this marker. A frontier Fort of Dunmore’s War 1774, the Indian War, and the War of the Revolution, It was also known as Truby’s Blockhouse. From here a petition to Governor John Penn sent by eighty inhabitants of Westmoreland County, headed Read more...

Hannastown

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Site of former county seat of Westmoreland County is just east of here. First county seat west of mountains, 1773. Citizens adopted a Declaration in support of the Revolution, 1775. Burned by the Indians in 1782. (Dedicated: Friday, December 6, 1946) Read more...