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The land was purchased by Captain John Wilcox in 1750, and quickly sold to Charles Cruikshank in 1761. The main house, built in c. 1750 and expanded several times through the 1850s, was, for the most part, built in additions by Cruikshank and his family, who added the various terraces, gardens, and most of the residence facing Cobbs Creek .
The county was created on September 26, 1783, from part of Westmoreland County and named after the Marquis de Lafayette. [3] The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Fayette County is part of the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Redstone Creek is a historically important widemouthed canoe and river boat-navigable brook-sized tributary stream of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The creek is 28.4 miles (45.7 km) long, [5] running from headwaters on Chestnut Ridge north through the city of Uniontown and reaching the Monongahela at Brownsville ...
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Brownsville has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km 2), of which 0.97 square miles (2.5 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 10.47%, is water [3] —most of which is the Fayette County half of the Monongahela River between the community and the flatter lands of West ...
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
1750s establishments in Pennsylvania (9 C, 2 P) 0–9. 1750 in Pennsylvania (1 C) 1752 in Pennsylvania (1 C) 1753 in Pennsylvania (1 C) 1754 in Pennsylvania (1 C, 1 P)