Toll House Marker Between Wheeling, W. Va. and Washington, Pa. on U. S. Route 40
Date:
1951
Description:
'One of the six original toll houses on the Cumberland or National Road is on the hill a mile and a half SW. Built after the road was turned over to the State by the United States in 1835.'
National Road Marker Between Wheeling, W. Va. and Washington, Pa
Date:
1951
Description:
'Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin. Begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Md.; completed to Wheeling in 1818. Toll road under State control, 1835-1905. Rebuilt, it is present U.S. Route 40.'
A Pennsylvania highway marker stands between Wheeling, W. Va. and Washington, PA on the US Route 40. The marker reads: Pennsylvania--founded 1681 by William Penn ans a Quaker Commonwealth, Birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Group at Great Crossings Historical Marker, Addison, Pa.
Date:
1912/05
Description:
The marker, which is decorated with an American flag, reads, "About one half mile above this point is the 'Great Crossings' of the Youghiogheny River, where George Washington crossed November 18th, 1753, when sent as envoy by Gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia to the French Commandant at Fort Le Boeuf.Washington, on his military expedition to the Ohio, encamped there with his forces, May 18th to 24th, 1754, and from that point explored the Youghiogheny.There, also, Major General Braddock, with his army, crossed June 24th, 1755, on his march against Fort Duquesne."
The Pearl S. Buck House, Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Pa.
Date:
undated
Description:
"Home of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author and humanitarian Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973). A national historic landmark, the 1835 stone farmhouse is open for guided tours March - Dec."
