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Identifier: historyoffayette00elli (find matches)
Title: History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
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Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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HISTORY OP FAYETTE COUxNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER I. HISTORIC GROUND OF FAYETTE—LOCATION, BOUN-DARIES, AND TOPOURAPIIY. There are within the State of Pennsylvania veryfew counties whose boundaries include ground morehistoric than that which is comprehended in the do-main of the county of Fayette. A century and aquarter ago, when the two great European rivals,England and France, contended for dominion overthe vast region watered by the head-streams of theOiiio, the latter nation claimed the summit of LaurelHill as her eastern boundary; and in the strife which-followed—the contest by the issue of which that claimwas extinguished forever—it was in the ravines andon the hillsides and meadows lying between theYoughiogheny and Monongahela Rivers that theforces, marching respectively under the Bourbon liliesand the cross of St. George first met in actual shockof arms; it was the soil now of Fayette Countywhich drank the first blood spilled in that memorablecontlict. Years afterwards, whistoryoffayette00elli

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  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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