The Mount Washington Tavern was a tavern along the National Road. It is now open seasonally as a museum. The furnished rooms and interpretive signs tell the story of this historic building.
The Great Meadows is a wide open meadow that was used as the location for what would become Fort Necessity, and is the site of The Battle of the Great Meadows.
1 mile west of Fort Necessity is the location of General Edward Braddock's Grave. The highest ranking British officer buried on American soil, General Braddock died from wounds suffered in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela, one year after hostilities opened between Great Britain and France at Fort Necessity. Braddock's Grave is open seasonally.
"Indian Run" is the name for a channelized creek that drains through The Great Meadows into Great Meadows Run next to Fort Necessity. George Washington wished to use these creek beds as a defensive position to defend the original supply stockade of what would become Fort Necessity. Unfortunately on the day of The Battle of the Great Meadows on July 3rd, 1754 a steady rain would settle in, flooding the creek bed and turning The Great Meadows into a large quagmire.
The Fort Necessity National Battlefield/National Road Heritage Corridor Interpretive and Education Center is the main visitor center for Fort Necessity. It tells the story of the opening years of the French and Indian War. The story of The National Road, America's first federally funded highway is also told here through a partnership with Pennsylvania's National Road Heritage Corridor.
Locations:Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship Hill National Historic Site
The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in southwestern Pennsylvania reveals how one region, in a sustained and thunderous blast of innovation, ambition and fire, forever changed America and its place in the world. It is the story of the industrialists and the workers who pushed an infant industry to it ultimate limits and in doing so pushed the world into the Age of Steel.
