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west-byGod-Pa. | I live 20 miles west of there. I do not have a Tv, but from what I gather on what came through on my phone news sources, the contractors who come in to dig graves are doing the damage. I know the cemetery-it is along National Road, U.S. Route 40, just east of Brownsville, along the east bank of the Monongahela River. It is up on the ridge above town. I originally thought it was vandalism by hooligans, but appears to be the grave contractors. What POSSIBLY is part of the problem is a lack of adequate access roads to various parts of the cemetery. It lies along the south slope next to U.S. 40. The cemetery has been there a long time. I don’t know anyone close to it that would know the details & news accounts have been lacking in information.
The original keelboats built for the Lewis & Clark expedition were built along the Monongahela River at the base of town. U.S. 40 was the original pioneer wagon road
U.S. 40 bypasses Pittsburgh & goes west thru Wheeling West Virginia. One could also take the Monongahela River north & around west to Pittsburgh, where it meets the Allegheny River to form the Ohio, which hooks around northwest into Ohio on its West Bank & West Virginia on its east bank, passing Wheeling on its way south & west.
The cemetery is about 35 miles northwest of Fort Necessity-up on the Laurel Plateau. During the French & Indian War, George Washington was a scout for the British who had come west desiring to push the French out of the region. The French had built good relations with various tribes, come from Fort Duquesne( later Pitt/Pittsburgh). The British built a hasty pole set stockade in a bad location. The French & Indians were successful & British had to surrender. Many years later, a historian found an Indian chief who had been at the battle & said this about George Washington: “ I had 22 or 23 fair shots at the man & could not bring him to ground-the man was not meant to die”. | |
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How do people become this disrespectful?
