Evans City was the central filming location for the historic and influential 1968 film.
Added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999. — — Map (db m214363) HM
Returning to Virginia from his historic visit at Fort Le Boeuf, Washington used the adjacent Venango Indian Trail. In this locality, on Dec. 27, 1753, he narrowly escaped death, being shot at by an Indian less than fifteen paces from him. — — Map (db m80462) HM
On the flats of the east side of Connoquenessing Creek, one hundred rods east of this spot, Major George Washington, then a youth twenty-one years of age, narrowly escaped death, being shot at by a hostile Indian, less than fifteen steps distant, on . . . — — Map (db m42639) HM
