“First in war - first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

This tablet marks the building used by President George Washington as his headquarters October 19 and 20, 1794, when he was in Bedford, in charge of the United States Army, which was enroute to quell the Whiskey Insurrection in western Pennsylvania.

Marker is on Pitt Street (Business U.S. 30), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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