General Braddock's 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington was forced to remain behind with a guard on account of "violent fevers" until cured by "Dr. James's Powders (one of the most excellent medicines in the world)," he wrote his brother Augustine.

Marker is on National Pike (U.S. 40) 0.8 miles east of the Pennsylvania state line, on the right when traveling west.

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