Nearby On This Tract of Land Called Mount Vernon

Stood the home of Colonial Patriot

John Wallace, Junior

February 15, 1755 - May 1811

Founder

of

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania - 1797

The town laid out in 1797 was named Waynesburg until 1831.

The plot included the original "settlement" which came to be

called Wallacetown in honor of John ...