Site One – Fort Necessity
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For a pleasant day trip we
suggest beginning at Fort Necessity located on U.S. Rte. 40 east of Uniontown
in Fayette County. This is an
important site, for it is here in 1754 that young George Washington was
besieged and forced to surrender by the French. That event helped persuade the British government to organize a
many pronged attack on French forces in the Great Lakes area in 1755. General Braddock, of course, led one of
the attacking armies. Managed by the
National Park Service, the Fort Necessity site has a museum, a film on the
events of 1754, costumed guides, and a reconstruction of Washington’s
palisaded fortification. |