Waynesburg, prosperous and beautiful : a souvenir pictorial story of the biggest and best little city in Pennsylvania . Caudidates for the Ho College Iuot-Ball Ieain. Walton Bldg., owned by Senator D. S. Walton. Walton Hotel, Ned Walton, Proprietor T^HE year 1774 was known in local history as the bloody year. Fort Jackson was built on the plateau (that is now a part of East Waynesburg) near the mouth of John Wileys Run. It wasthe refuge for about fifty families that resided in this neighborhood. At first this fortification wasbut a single cabin remodeled and reconstructed into a sort of blockh
Waynesburg, prosperous and beautiful : a souvenir pictorial story of the biggest and best little city in Pennsylvania . Caudidates for the Ho College Iuot-Ball Ieain. Walton Bldg., owned by Senator D. S. Walton. Walton Hotel, Ned Walton, Proprietor T^HE year 1774 was known in local history as the bloody year. Fort Jackson was built on the plateau (that is now a part of East Waynesburg) near the mouth of John Wileys Run. It wasthe refuge for about fifty families that resided in this neighborhood. At first this fortification wasbut a single cabin remodeled and reconstructed into a sort of blockhouse. It was increased in sizeas the inhabitants increased and dangers thickened, until it was a regular stockade of great capacityand superior strength. It consisted of a regular system of cabins, arranged in the form of a hollowsquare and enclosing an acre of ground. Between these cabins were palisades ten or twelve feethigh, all supplied with portholes and other necessary essentials to effective defense. Each prominent,thrifty settler in this neighborhood who looked to Fort Jackson for protection, owned one of itselementary cabins, and besides a home on his
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