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2008 National Road Festival
May 16-17-18

Fort Necessity
  

  

 

Searight's Tollhouse

SEARIGHT'S TOLLHOUSE is next to the National Road near Fort Necessity

Tollhouses were used to raise money to maintain the National Road

National Road tollhouse
Ft. Necessity Visitor Center

The new Ft. Necessity Visitor's Center was completed in October 2005

  
Welcome
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
&
National Road Heritage Corridor
  
HERE IN 1754, George Washington suffered the first defeat of his military career. That battle was a prelude to a war for empire that eventually set the stage for the American Revolution.
  

   
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As a path through the woods is made not by one traveler, but by many, so history is not made only by great leaders, but by all peoples who have journeyed on the path to the present
  
  
  

Ft. Necessity seen through the trees

Fort Necessity
earthworks

Earthworks and a cannon next to the fort

Battlefield display indicates the flow of battle

 

 

 

Entrance to the indoor historical displays at the National Road Museum

George Washington

George Washington
Indian War Belt

Indian War Belt

Johnson Dish Belt made from wampum beads

Johnson Dish Belt made from wampum beads
Indian artifacts

Indian artifacts fill a display case

 

 

 

This Ft. Necessity battle scene is accompanied by a recorded narration

Interactive display at Fort Necessity Visitors Center

Displays tell of global empires

Room recreated from that historic period

National Road builder

Worker on the National Road

National Road
mile marker
  
'52 to Cumberland'

National Road mileage marker

Historic Marker on
National Road

NATIONAL ROAD
Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin. Begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Md.; completed to Wheeling in 1818. Toll road under State control, 1835-1905. Rebuilt, it is present U.S. Route 40.

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