This Tablet Marks The Site of Fort Bedford

This tablet erected by Bedford Penn'a Chapter D.A.R.

May 30, 1925

Marks the site of Fort Bedford

One of the Frontier Forts

Built by the British in 1758

The stockade enclosing the fort contained about 7000 square yards of ground

It was the rendezvous and protection ...

Bonnet Tavern

This inn at the junction of the Forbes and Burd Roads was operated, 1779-1815, by Jean Bonnet and his heirs. In mid-1794, during the Whiskey Rebellion, embattled farmers met here and raised a liberty pole to protest the federal excise ...

Frederick S. Duesenberg

(1878-1932)

Near this site on July 2, 1932, the builder of Duesenberg luxury automobiles was seriously injured when his supercharged Model J crashed into the mountainside. He died on July 26 at Memorial Hospital of Johnstown.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Get Behind the Wheel

Hub, Home, Heart

Ourisman Chevrolet once occupied almost the entire north side of this block. After two years as a top-performing Chevy salesman on Connecticut Avenue, and with a $2,000 loan from his widowed mother, Benjamin Ourisman opened his own ...

Foxburg Golf Course

Oldest golf course in continuous use in the U.S. In 1887, land was made available to the newly formed Foxburg Golf Club by Joseph M. Fox, its first president. Course was enlarged from five to nine holes in 1888. The ...

Buchanan Furnace

A short distance NW of here is the well-preserved cold blast furnace, named for James Buchanan. It was built in 1844; abandoned, 1858, due to lack of timber. At the time of its operation, the iron industry was very prosperous ...

The Wilder Home / The Little Books Began Here

(Side A) The Wilder Home 1928-1936

In 1928, after living abroad for several years, Rose Wilder Lane returned to her childhood home on Rocky Ridge Farm. With proceeds from her writings Rose built her parents a modern house. The keys were ...

Carl "Sub" Mays

1891 - 1971

Carl grew up in the Prairie Hollow community south of Mansfield.

Mays made his major league debut as a pitcher on April 15, 1915. His famous spitball submarine delivery resulted in a heavy, sinking effect that batters easily misjudged. ...

Brickyards to Buildings

Hub, Home, Heart

The Trinidad neighborhood, named for W.W. Corcoran's original estate, got its start in the 1890s after the Washington Brick Machine Company used up the clay here making bricks. With H Street filling in with houses and businesses, ...

Meridian's "C" Battery

Monday, September 4th, Labor Day, 1950 at 9:30 p.m. 125 local Marine Reserves of Meridian's "C" Battery, 4th 155mm Howitzer Battalion U.S.M.C.R. held their last local muster here at the old Union Station enroute to Camp Pendleton, California and ...