. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . State,—Chestnut ridge being the only one of anycontinuous prominence that intersects waters of the Youghiogheny, the Kis-kimineta-s, the Loyalhanna, Big and LittleSewickley, Jacobs creek, Turtle creek, andother smaller streams, contribute to its fer-tility and beauty. Previous to 1758 Westmoreland was awilderness, known
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . State,—Chestnut ridge being the only one of anycontinuous prominence that intersects waters of the Youghiogheny, the Kis-kimineta-s, the Loyalhanna, Big and LittleSewickley, Jacobs creek, Turtle creek, andother smaller streams, contribute to its fer-tility and beauty. Previous to 1758 Westmoreland was awilderness, known only to an occasionalwhite trader and frontiersman. Access tothe forks of the Ohio, where Pittsburg nowstands, was by way of the Juniata and theKiskiminetas, or lay Braddocks road fromVirginia, and thence down the Mononga-hela. The first opening through the wilder-ness of Westmoreland county was cut byGeneral Forbes army, in 1758, when thesuccessful expedition was made against FortDu Quesne. This expedition was mainlyfitted out at Lancaster, and moved by wayof the Cumberland valley to Bedford. Whilethe principal army was delayed there, wait-ing for supplies. Colonel Bouquet ])ushcdforward with two thousand five hundredmen, cutting a road as he progressed, and. OLD SAW-MILL ON THK CONEMAUGH. arriving at the Loyalhanna in he remained some time, and in Octoberwas attacked by the French and Indians,whom he repulsed. A second attack uponhim was equally unsuccessful. The defen-sive works erected by him were afterwardsstrengthened and made a depot of was named Fort Ligonier, and remainedone of the chain of fortifications, extendingfrom the Cumberland valley to the Ohio,until after the Revolutionary war. Thetown of Ligonier is built at the site of thefort. Colonel Washington joined the forcesat Ligonier in October, and was sent for-ward with a detachment to cut the roadstill further,—to throw up entrenchmentswhere necessary for the protection of supply
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