Fort Necessity
  

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

Tollhouses were used to raise money to maintain the National Road

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.
  

     
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

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

Indian War Belt

Johnson Dish Belt made from wampum beads

Indian artifacts fill a display case

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

Displays tell of global empires

Room recreated from that historic period

Worker on the National Road

National Road
mile marker
  
'52 to Cumberland'

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.

Battleship USS New Jersey
Brig Niagara on Lake Erie
Pennsylvania history pages
Ligonier and Fort Ligonier
National Pike Steam Show
Old Economy Village
The giant trees of Cook Forest
Travel Pages