• Redstone Old Fort — written as Redstone or Red-Stone Fort or (for a short time when built) Fort Burd — on the Nemacolin Trail, was the name of the French...
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    a river crossing point roughly 41 mi (66 km) away, near Redstone Creek and Redstone Old Fort. This was a prehistoric Native American earthwork mound on...
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    on its way to Punxsutawney. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War Redstone Old Fort Lorant, Stefan. "Historic Pittsburgh Chronology". Historic Pittsburgh...
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    they called the settlement Redstone Old Fort; later in the 1760s and 1770s, it became known as "Redstone Fort" or "Fort Burd", named after the officer...
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    neighborhood known today as Redstone located at mouth of Redstone Creek. In colonial America, the site was known as Redstone Old Fort for its defensive installation...
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  • of Fort Cumberland) and the mouth of Redstone Creek on the Monongahela River (a tributary of the Ohio River) which later became Redstone Old Fort and...
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  • as Brownsville in Fayette County and settled on Dunlaps Creek at Redstone Old Fort circa 1770. In 1773, he was appointed as a justice of the peace; in...
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    Pennsylvania was Captain Michael Cresap, the owner of a trading post at Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pennsylvania) on the Monongahela River. Under authority...
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    fortified posts at Wills Creek (that became Cumberland, Maryland), and Redstone Old Fort (that became Brownsville, Pennsylvania). Cresap and his scout Nemacolin...
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    Redstone Arsenal is a United States Army base adjacent to Huntsville, Alabama in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. A census-designated place in Madison...
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  • Mongolia Cape Burd, Antarctic Peninsula Redstone Old Fort, built in 1759 by Colonel James Burd and briefly named Fort Burd Bashshar ibn Burd (714-784), Persian...
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    and Westmoreland. A preliminary meeting held on July 27, 1791, at Redstone Old Fort in Fayette County called for the selection of delegates to a more...
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    pre-Columbian era Native American Indian trail and footpaths connecting Redstone Old Fort with the "forks of the Ohio", a distance of 26 miles (42 km). It later...
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  • widening the Nemacolin Trail into freight wagon road from Cumberland to Redstone Old Fort. A decade later, George Washington and his troops would further improve...
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    with Pennsylvania farmer Jacob Yoder building the first flatboat at Old Redstone Fort on the Monongahela River. Yoder's ancestors immigrated from Switzerland...
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  • His lands were in the area generally called Redstone or Redstone Fort or Redstone Old Fort or sometimes Fort Burd (from construction in 1759). The first...
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  • Pittsburgh Redstone Old Fort Fort Necessity "GNIS Detail - Redstone Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 30 December 2019. "Redstone Creek...
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    Nemacolin's Path. Because of this site when travel required walking, Redstone Old Fort or Burd's Fort, later became renamed to Brownsville after its developer around...
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    present-day Brownsville were held by British troops establishing the Redstone Old Fort during the French and Indian War. The parish was formally recognized...
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    town of Brownsville (named for Thomas Brown and formerly known as Redstone Old Fort) became a "keel-boat" building center as well as other businesses...
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    one. They built the earthwork mounds which the colonists called Redstone Old Fort. Fort Burd was built on top of its sandstone base. The Castle is one...
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    counterfeiting measures at the time. Clark established his headquarters at Redstone Old Fort on the Monongahela River, while three of Clark's associates from Dunmore's...
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  • Tuskegee Mount Paran Cemetery, New Market; NHRP-listed Redstone Arsenal cemeteries, Redstone Arsenal Ahavas Chesed Cemetery, Mobile Catholic Cemetery...
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  • improvements. He reached Redstone Old Forts, where he had his men build Fort Hangard, a blockhouse built out of logs felled along Redstone Creek. Trent was a...
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    ATTC was moved north to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and combined with the Redstone Technical Test Center to form the Redstone Test Center. The United States...
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  • Monongahela River in close proximity to Fort Burd. In those days it was called Redstone Old Fort, or simply Redstone. Later, the name was changed to Brownsville...
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    Revolutionary War, Jacob Yoder invented and built a large boat at the Redstone Old Fort on the Monongahela River, which he freighted with flour and carried...
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  • Monongahela River in close proximity to Fort Burd. In those days it was called Redstone Old Fort, or simply Redstone. Later, the name was changed to Brownsville...
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