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Historic Fayette County, Pennsylvania
When the first Europeans arrived in southwestern Pennsylvania in the early 1790's, they set the stage for a drama that was to extend over the next two centuries. The story of these settlers and the experience of their descendants and the later waves of immigrants who followed them to the Allegheny Mountains, has become a take of an American Transformation.
Beginning with the first colonial settlers, through the French and Indian War, Pontiac's Rebellion, the development of the National Road, the Pennsylvania Canal era, the rise of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the transitions from charcoal to coke production and iron foundries to steel mills, rise of affiliated industries sich as aluminum and glass, and the creation of the 20th Century highways the experience of the people who live in the Allegheny Mountains and their foothills and adjacent plains is, collectively, the story of the transformation from rural agrarian soceity through the Industrial Age and into the modern era.
Searights Toll House "You don't realize how beautiful it is." This comment was made about Fayette County by visitors from other states. It applies not only to the phsyical attributes, the mountains and rivers, but also to the people, their history and culture. From the early Native Americans, to the British and French, to the National Road, to the great immagration of the coal and coke era, Fayette County chronicles the sweep of history. The county is home to two National Parks, four National Historic Landmark Sites, and numerous Historic Registry Sites. Enjoy unmatched outdoor recreation, scenic wonders, historic sojourns here in Fayette County.
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