| Maryland (Allegany County), Frostburg — Blazing Braddock's Road |
| | “We this day passed the ‘Aligany’ Mountain (Big Savage Mountain) which is a rocky ascent of more than two miles, in many places extremely steep…”
Captain Robert Orme, June 15, 1755
British General Edward Braddock led a 2,100-man army through this wild country in 1755. The troops intended to dislodge the French from the “Forks of the Ohio” (Pittsburgh) almost 100 miles away. They were blazing a new trail, forever known as “Braddock’s Road.”
As . . . — Map (db m5013) |
| Maryland (Allegany County), Frostburg — Martin’s Plantation |
| | General Braddock's 2nd camp on the march to Fort Duquesne June 14th, 15th, 1755. The old Braddock Road passed to the southeast of the National Road from Clarysville to the "Shades of Death" near "Two Mile Run." The National Road was begun by the Government in 1811. — Map (db m440) |
| Maryland (Allegany County), La Vale — “Spendelow Camp” — Also Called “Camp at the Grove” |
| | General Braddock’s 1st camp on the march from Fort Cumberland to Fort Duquesne, June 11th to 13th, 1855. After building a road over Wills Mountain, Spendelow, an engineer, discovered a route by “The Narrows” and Braddock’s Run and a second road was opened. — Map (db m2083) |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Braddock Heights — Hagan’s Tavern — If walls could talk.. |
| | The National Road has borne witness to many notorious comings and goings. The quiet atmosphere you’ll find at Hagan’s Tavern today is quite different from the raucous bawdiness of yesteryear. This tavern was a “place where the old bloats of the neighborhood would gather on Saturday and public days to run horses, fight chickens, drink bad whiskey, and black each others eyes.” It was also a political stomping ground where “cooping” commonly occurred, a practice . . . — Map (db m2247) |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Frederick — Braddock, Washington, and Franklin |
| | On April 23, 1755 At a Tavern located near this spot General Edward Braddock Colonel George Washington and Benjamin Franklin Met to plan the British assault on Ft. Dusquesne During the French & Indian War This plaque erected by the Kiwanis Club of Frederick June 8, 1998 — Map (db m2725) |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Frederick — General Edward Braddock |
| | General Edward Braddock traveled over this road in April 1755 (in a coach and six horses purchased from Gov. Horatio Sharpe of Maryland)after a protracted conference in Frederick with Benjamin Franklin and others concerning the securing of teams, wagons and supplies for the expedition against Fort Duquesne. — Map (db m1247) |
| Maryland (Frederick County), Frederick — This Boulder Marks the National Trail |
| | This boulder marks the National Trail over which traveled Gen. Edward Braddock and Lieutenant Colonel George Washington 1755. — Map (db m22275) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Finzel — Savage River Camp |
| | General Braddock's 3rd camp on his march to Fort Duquesne June 16, 1755. The route, later known as the Old Braddock Road, passes to the southeast of the National Road. Captain Orme's diary says "we entirely demolished three wagons and shattered several" descending Savage Mountain. — Map (db m439) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Granstville — General Braddock’s 5th Camp |
| | On the march to Fort Duquesne June 19th, 1755. By Washington’s advice, Braddock pushed forward from Little Meadows to this camp with 1200 chosen men and officers leaving the heavy artillery and baggage behind to follow by easy stages under Colonel Dunbar. — Map (db m357) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Bear Camp |
| | General Braddock's 6th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne Saturday and Sunday June 20th and 21st, 1755. Washington was forced to remain behind with a guard on account of "violent fevers" until cured by "Dr. James's Powders (one of the most excellent medicines in the world)," he wrote his brother Augustine. — Map (db m356) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — Little Meadows |
| | General Braddock's 4th camp on the march to Fort Duquesne June 17, 1755. Washington arrived here after Braddock's defeat July 15th, 1755. Washington also stopped here May 9th, 1754, July 7th or 8th, 1754, October 1st, 1770, November 26th, 1770 and September 10, 1784. — Map (db m361) |
| Maryland (Garrett County), Grantsville — The Little Crossings |
| | The "Little Crossings" of the Little Youghiogeny River, now called Castleman's River). So called by George Washington when he crossed on June 19, 1755, with General Edward Braddock on the ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). — Map (db m358) |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Gaithersburg — General Edward Braddock |
| | General Edward Braddock in April 1755, accompanied by Gov. Horatio Sharpe of Maryland, traveled this road in a coach and six horses, on his way to Frederick, Md. to meet Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, to arrange for teams for the Fort Duquesne expedition. — Map (db m1012) |
| Maryland (Montgomery County), Rockville — Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock and His Men |
| | To commemorate the encampment in Maryland of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock and his men at Owen's Ordinary, now Rockville, April 20, 1755. This stone is placed by the Janet Montgomery Chapter, Daughters of he American Revolution, Mrs. Morris L. Croxall, Regent, July 9, 1913. — Map (db m77) |
| Maryland (Washington County), Sharpsburg — General Edward Braddock |
| | General Edward Braddock in April 1755 (driven in his coach and six horses) crossed into Virginia near this point on his way to Fort Cumberland, after ten days’ conference with Benjamin Franklin and others in Frederick, Md., arranging for teams and supplies for the expedition to Fort Duquesne. — Map (db m1966) |
| Pennsylvania (Cumberland County), Shippensburg — Braddock Expedition |
| | In 1755 supplies for Braddock’s army were stored here in Edward Shippen’s strong stone house “at the back Run.” James Burd, the son-in-law of Shippen, opened a road to carry these supplies to the west. After Braddock’s defeat the remaining supplies were given to sufferers from Indian attacks. — Map (db m1018) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — A Secret Grave |
| | Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock—commander-in-chief of British forces in North America—traveled over the road trace below on June 25, 1755. Marching north with his 2,400-man army, the 60-year-old Braddock was under orders to capture Fort Duquesne and force the French from the Upper Ohio Valley.
However, disaster struck a few miles from Fort Duquesne on July 9. There they collided with about 200 French and 600 Indians. Disorganization and fear seized the British as they suffered about . . . — Map (db m339) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — Braddock Park |
| | Gen. Edward Braddock was buried here in 1755, after his disastrous defeat and death. The site of his original grave, the new grave to which his remains were moved in 1804, and a trace of the Braddock Road may be seen here. — Map (db m310) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — Braddock’s Grave |
| | Here lieth the remains of Major General Edward Braddock who, in command of the 44th and 48th regiments of English Regulars, was mortally wounded in an engagement with the French and Indians under the command of Captain M. de Beaujeu at the Battle of Monongahela within ten miles of Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburg, July 9, 1755. He was borne back with the retreating army to the Old Orchard Camp about one fourth of a mile west of this park where he died July 13, 1775. Lieutenant Colonel George . . . — Map (db m304) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — Braddock’s Original Grave Site |
| | This tablet marks the spot where Major-General Edward Braddock was buried, July 14th, 1755. His remains were removed in 1804 to the site of the present monument. — Map (db m343) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — First Roads to the West |
| | Before the Europeans, only Indian trails led through virgin forests that once stretched beyond the horizon. About 1750 Nemacolin, a Delaware Indian, blazed a trail past here for the Ohio Company. Four years later, Virginia militia under Lt. Col. George Washington cut a narrow "road" through this wilderness from present-day Cumberland, Maryland to beyond Fort Necessity.
In 1755, Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's British army widened Washington's road and extended it to the Monongahela River. . . . — Map (db m333) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — Road to Disaster |
| | On June 25, 1755, the largest army assembled in North America up to that time passed this spot. British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock led the first 1,400 soldiers of his 2,400-man army along a 12-foot-wide road. Lt. Col. Thomas Dunbar lagged behind with 1,000 men and the army's supplies. Braddock's goal of expelling the French from Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh) was thwarted when his advance troops collided with a force of French and Indians.
On July 14, what remained of that once proud . . . — Map (db m338) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Farmington — The Old Braddock Road |
| | This tablet marks a well preserved scar of the Old Braddock Trail, one of the most historic pioneer highways in all America.
Here, Nemacolin and his associates blazed the trail that became a National Highway.
• Here, passed the laden pack horse train that carried the Gist settlers to the first Anglo-Saxon settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.
• Here, George Washington, the youthful ambassador, with is escort passed on his way to the French forts.
Over this route marched Captain . . . — Map (db m327) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Hopwood — Braddock Road - Rock Fort Camp |
| | General Braddock’s tenth camp, June 26, 1755, on the march to Fort Duquesne, was at the Half King’s Rock, one mile NE of here. The Rock was named for Washington’s friend Tanacharisson, the Iroquois viceroy (half king) of the Ohio Indians. Washington met him here in 1754. — Map (db m507) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Hopwood — Washington–Braddock Road 1754–1756 |
| | Remnant of the Great Rock or the Half King’s Rock mentioned by early cartographers.
The famous Washington-Braddock Road emerging from Laurel Hill Mountain one hundred yards eastward turned northward at this point.
Rock Fort Camp, where Braddock’s army encamped June 28, 1755, was situated one hundred fifty yards to the northward. Two miles beyond are Washington’s first battlefield, 1754, Jumonville’s grave and Dunbar’s camp 1765. — Map (db m506) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Jumonville — Braddock Road - Dunbar’s Camp |
| | General Braddock’s army ascended the ridge east of this point and advanced toward Gist’s Plantation. Col. Dunbar’s detachment, following with the heavy baggage, made its last camp here. Later, as Braddock’s defeated army streamed back, Dunbar destroyed his supplies and withdrew. — Map (db m504) |
| Pennsylvania (Fayette County), Markleysburg — Braddock Road — Twelve Springs Camp |
| | General Braddock's eighth camp, June 25, 1755, on the march to Fort Duquesne, was about half a mile S.W. Chestnut Ridge, seen on the horizon to the west, was the last mt. range to be crossed. Axemen widened an Indian path for passage of supply wagons and artillery over it. — Map (db m349) |
| Pennsylvania (Somerset County), Addison — Great Crossings |
| | About one half mile above this point is the "Great Crossings" of the Youghiogheny River, where George Washington crossed November 18th, 1753, when sent as envoy by Gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia to the French Commandant at Fort Le Boeuf.
Washington, on his military expedition to the Ohio, encamped there with his forces, May 18th to 24th, 1754, and from that point explored the Youghiogheny.
There, also, Major General Braddock, with his army, crossed June 24th, 1755, on his march against Fort Duquesne. — Map (db m351) |
| Virginia, Alexandria — Braddock Cannon |
| | (North Side):
This monument marks the trail taken by the army of General Braddock which left Alexandria on April 20, 1755 to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians.
Erected by the Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, May 26, 1915
(South Side):
The Cannon used here was abandoned by General Braddock at Old Alexandria April 1755.
The Cobble-Stones composing this mound were taken from the streets of Old Alexandria which were . . . — Map (db m7567) |
| Virginia, Winchester — Braddock Cannon |
| | (Left Side): This monument marks the trail taken by the army of General Braddock, which left Alexandria April 9, 1755 to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians. Erected by the Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, May 27, 1915 (Right Side): The cannon here used was abandoned by General Braddock at old Alexandria 1755. The stones of the pedestal are from 1. The Blue Ridge. 2. The Shenandoah River. 3. Shawnee Springs. 4. Jost Hite’s . . . — Map (db m2649) |
| Virginia, Winchester — Q 4b — Joist Hite and Braddock / Winchester |
| | (West Facing Side): By this road, then an Indian trail, Joist Hite and his followers came to make the first permanent settlement in this section, 1732. In 1755, General Edward Braddock of the British army, accompanied by George Washington, passed here on his way to defeat death at Fort Duquesne. (East Facing Side): Winchester — At first called Fredericktown, it was founded in 1744, near a Shawnee Indian village, by Colonel James Wood, a native of the English city of . . . — Map (db m2558) |
| Virginia (Fairfax County), Great Falls — E 112 — Old Road To The West |
| | Colvin Run Road is a remnant of an 18th-century wagon road from the Shenandoah Valley to Alexandria that probably originated as an Indian path. George Washington passed by here in 1753 and 1754 en route to persuade the French on the Ohio River to withdraw from English territory. In 1755, during the French and Indian War, a brigade of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock’s army traveled the road on its ill-fated march to Fort Duquesne. The road was incorporated into Middle Turnpike before 1840. A century . . . — Map (db m1861) |
| West Virginia (Jefferson County), Harpers Ferry — Keyes Gap |
| | Formerly Vestal’s Gap. Historic gateway through the Blue Ridge into Shenandoah Valley. It was oftern used by Washington and by armies of the Blue and Gray, 1861–65. Here passed part of Braddock’s army, 1755, en route to Fort Duquesne. — Map (db m981) |
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