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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11M2_morewood-massacre_Mt-Pleasant-PA.html
On April 2, 1891, at the nearby Morewood Mines of the H.C. Frick Coke Company, sheriff's deputies killed seven strikers; two more died later. These were among some 16,000 workers striking for higher wages in the coke region. Thousands of mourners …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11M0_norvelt_Mt-Pleasant-PA.html
Originally called "Westmoreland Homesteads," Norvelt was established April 13, 1934, by the federal government as part of a New Deal homestead project. With 250 homes, Norvelt provided housing, work, and a community environment to unemployed worke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LZ_standard-shaft-mine-and-coke-works_Mt-Pleasant-PA.html
One of the world's largest coke producing centers operated here from 1883 to 1931. H. C. Frick Coke Company's more than 900 beehive ovens consumed thousands of tons of coal daily. The company publicized itself by exhibiting a scale model of Standa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LY_fort-allen_Greensburg-PA.html
Built and commanded by Colonel Christopher Truby, officer of the revolution, was located 150 yards to the south of this marker. A frontier Fort of Dunmore's War 1774, the Indian War, and the War of the Revolution, It was also known as Truby's Bloc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LX_fort-allen_Greensburg-PA.html
A little south, site of post built 1774 by Pennsylvania German pioneers of Brush Creek and Harrold's settlements. A refuge from Indians in Dunmore's War and American Revolution.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LW_bushy-run-battlefield_Jeannette-PA.html
British and Americans under Colonel Henry Bouquet defeated the Indians here, August 5-6, 1763, during the Pontiac War, and lifted the siege of Fort Pitt.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM117N_rural-free-delivery_New-Stanton-PA.html
On November 24, 1896, the United States Post Office Department established Pennsylvania's first two rural mail routes here in Westmoreland County. One operated from the post office here in New Stanton; the other operated out of nearby Ruffsdale (l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115T_colonel-edward-cook_Belle-Vernon-PA.html
Settling here in the 1770s, Cook became a prominent landholder, jurist, and politician. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in Philadelphia in 1776 and served at the State Constitutional Convention. Although a moderate during the Whiskey Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115S_darr-mine-disaster_Belle-Vernon-PA.html
On December 19, 1907, an explosion killed 239 men and boys, many Hungarian immigrants, in Darr coal mine near Van Meter. Some were from the closed Naomi mine, near Fayette City, which exploded on Dec. 1, killing 34. Over 3000 miners died in Decemb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115R_west-newton_West-Newton-PA.html
Led by Gen. Rufus Putnam, the first settlers to establish American government in the Northwest Territory, built boats here to continue their journey from New England and to found Marietta, Ohio. They embarked on their river trip April 2, 1788.