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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by SgtMunro[/i] [br]For those wishing to follow the same route used by General Forbes, as well as to see some of the surviving/reconstructed sites of interest, here is a rough route of travel: (NOTE: you can make it eaiser by travelling US 30 West, from Carlisle, since there are no sites of general interest until you reach Ft. Loudon) 1) Starting at Carlisle, travel south on US 11 toward Shippensburg. You will find a PHMC marker for the Carlisle Redoubts. This was General Forbes' Campaign starting point. 2) About 2 miles south of Shippensburg, make a right on to Township Route (TR) 663. This was known as "The Loudon Road". Once near the site of Pinola, head toward Culbertson. 3) At Culbertson, the road traverses the grounds of the Letterkenny Army Ordinance Depot. From there, you want to get onto TR 538 heading toward Cheesetown, via TR 692, TR539 & State Route (SR) 4010 to Crider's Cemetery. 4) From there, you want the St. Thomas-Edenville Road, head toward Ft. Loudon. Ft. Loudon has been reconstructed, and during the month of November is filled with weekend F&I encampments. 5) From Ft. Loudon, you want to follow Route 30 west, since it roughly follows a good portion of the original road. You may turn off the betten path to the village of Fort Lyttleton, but there is only a PHMC marker on SR 522. 6) Continuing westward, on US 30, you will pass where the fortifcaton at Juniata Crossing. Once again, only a PHMC marker remains, about 6 miles east of Everett. 7) Within the modern town of Bedford, you will find another PHMC marker on US 30, marking the location of Ft. Bedford. Nearby, extensive private digs have located not only where the fort was, but the outerworks. One of the men responsible for the great work is none other than Roger Kirwin, the Director of Old Bedford Village (Located west of town, toward the PA Turnpike), a very nice site of relocated 18th century buildings. 8) Still travelling US 30 West, you will pass another PHMC marker noting the location of Ft. Dewart. Never a stockaded or 'proper' fort, it was nontheless a very important earthen redoubt, meant to provide a secure place to camp overnight. 9) From here, once again continuing west on US 30, you will eventually end up at Ft. Ligonier. Ft. Ligonier was the last 'proper' fort built on the road, before the forks of the Ohio. The fort has been reconstructed, and the site of living history events. 10) Continue west on US 30, past the Latrobe Airport, and make a right onto SR 1045 and an immediate left onto TR 898 which turns into SR 1022. You want to then get onto SR 1032 toward Hannastown (The location of another lovely reconstructed 'Pre-RevWar' village). 11) Several miles further, you want to follow SR 66 North, to US 22 West. From here, west of Murraysville, you want to turn right onto Sardis Road and turn left onto the Northern Pike, followed by a right onto New Texas Rd. Passing Boyce Park, east of which is Washington's Redoubt or Second Camp, you want to turn left onto SR 380, also known as Frankstown Road. 12) Stay on SR 380 West, you will pass through Plum Boro, Penn Hills and eventually end up in Pittsburgh East End (Remember caveat from posting, Rich), it will eventually become Frankstown Ave. 13) From Frankstown Ave., you will get onto Penn Ave. in the city's Point Breeze section. On Penn Ave., between Dallas Ave. and North Linden Ave., is the bronze tree stump I previously mentioned. 14) Staying on Penn Ave., right around 34th St., the original road turned closer to the river, but for convience sake stay on Penn Ave., till it merges with Liberty Ave. 15) Liberty Ave. will then empty out onto Commonwealth Place, at where the front gate of Ft. Pitt would have been located. From here, you cross Commonwealth Place, and enter Point State Park, where the Ft. Pitt Museum is located. Please forgive these directions, I am working on memory and do not have access to my library at this time. Any o [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.