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Our last stop before returning to Pittsburgh was the Fort Necessity Battle fields. A visit to these historic sites which belong to the National Park Services is highly recommendable and gave much more value for our money than Fallingwater. At the visitor center an audio-visual display told all the history attached to this central place in the mid 1700īs. The confrontations in 1754 at Fort Necessity between French settlers from the Ohio Valley and the English regiment under George Washington was the opening of the war between France and England to control the North American Continent. A state ranger with a collection of local animals and birds gave us a very kind and informative briefing of the natural surroundings. We then walked on to the reconstructed fort in the center of a low laying meadow surrounded by deep forests on the hill sides.
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A soldier dressed in the old English uniform from the 1750īs was on guard outside the fort. There were no other visitors (the place is really filled with history and deserves many visitors) so we had a good opportunity for a long chat with the lonely soldier.
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The soldier took us inside the protecting wood stockade of the fort to the storage house where the gun powder was stored in an attempt to keep it dry in these very wet meadows.
