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By Forest McDermott, June 16, 2014
Albert Gallatin Marker
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| On Railroad Street near Penn Street (U.S. 119), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Jeffersonian diplomat, financier, and statesman. Gallatin was the longest serving US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801 to 1814. As such, he facilitated the Lewis and Clark Expedition, successfully reduced the national debt until the War of 1812, and . . . — — Map (db m74478) HM |
| On New Geneva Road (Pennsylvania Route 166), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Half a mile east of here, 1794-1797, the first glass factory west of the Alleghenies was founded by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. He was aided by skillful glassworkers from the Amelung factory -- Kramer, Gabler, . . . — — Map (db m59680) HM |
May. 2, 2024