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The village of Hannastown was laid out and originally settled in 1768–1769. It consisted of thirty log houses, two taverns, and a garrison palisaded fort, and was the site of the first English court administering justice west of the Alleghenies between 1773 and 1787.
On May 16, 1775, settlers in the far west of Pennsylvania, along with Arthur St. Clair (The Penn government’s local representative) gathered at the tavern, which was also serving as the courthouse, in Hanna's Town (or Hannastown near present-day Greensburg, Pennsylvania) and affixed their names to the Hanna's Town Resolves agreeing to bind themselves together and to take up arms if necessary ...
Site of Old Hannastown: Site of Old Hannastown: January 26, 1972 : 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Greensburg: Hempfield Township: 46: Slickville Historic District: Slickville Historic District: June 3, 1994
A historical marker at Old Hannastown declares the next two miles "certainly along the original Forbes Road." (To the north on Fire Station Road is the village of Forbes Road and Hannastown, probably named for later iterations of the original trace.) Forbes Road (CR1032) continues west until the modern SR 66 interrupts its path.
Hannastown is an unincorporated community and important historical and archaeological site located in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Although the village is not tracked by the Census Bureau , it has been assigned the ZIP code 15635.
This is a list of places within the historic county of Lancashire, England. It lists places within geographical Lancashire, rather than the 1974 creation of ...
Kingdoms in England and Wales about 600 AD. Urban sites were on the decline from the late Roman period and remained of very minor importance until around the 9th century. The largest cities in later Anglo-Saxon England however were Winchester, London and York, in that order, although London had eclipsed Winchester by the 11th century. Details ...
Hannastown Farm, also known as the William Steel Farm, is a national historic district and farm which are located in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.