Site Fourteen – Salt Lick Camp
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This marker stands where Braddock held a council of war, 1755. The marker reads as follows: Braddock’s
Military Road 1755 Salt
Lick Camp This tablet
marks the site of General Edward Braddock’s sixteenth encampment named “Salt
Lick Camp.” Here Braddock’s army camped July 3, 1755. After having marched six miles from Jacob’s
Cabin Camp. The circuitous route via
Mount Pleasant was made to get around a great swamp six miles beyond was
Braddock’s next camp called “Thicketty Run Camp.” |
