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Addison
Toll House
Bear Run Nature
Reserve
Braddock's Grave
Chalk Hill Farm
Museum
Christmas Shoppe
Coal & Coke Heritage
Ctr
Country Charm
The Cross
CW Klay Winery
Dunlap Creek Bridge
Fallingwater
Flat Iron Building
Fort Mason Museum
Fort Necessity
Friendship Hill
Hazelbaker
Historic Brownsville
Historic Connellsville
Historic Dawson
Historic Perryopolis
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Historic Hopwood
Inne at Watson's Choice
Jumonville Glen
Jumonville Methodist
Youth Ctr
Kentuck Knob
Laurel Caverns
Linden Hall
Meason House
Mt Saint Macrina
National Road
Nemacolin Castle
Nemacolin Woodlands
New Geneva Stoneware
Ohiopyle State Park
Pennsylvania Room
Point Lookout
Scenery Hill
Searight Toll House
State Theatre
Stone House
Summit Inn
Touchstone Center for Arts
Village of Shoaf
Washington Grist
Mill
Washington Tavern
West Overton Museums
Wharton Furnace
Youghiogheny
River / Lake
Youghiogheny
River Trail
Youghiogheny Station
Themes
Antiques
Architecture
Biking
Coal and Coke Era
Early Local History
Fall Foliage
Fishing
French & Indian
War 250th Anniversary
Genealogy
Glass
Golfing
Hiking
Hospitals
Gen. George C Marshall
Morgantown WV
Mountain Area
National
Road
Nature
Opulence of Coal &
Coke Era
Pittsburgh
Skiing
Trivia
Geo. Washington Slept
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Whitewater Adventures
Historic UniontownWalking tour brochures are available by contacting the Uniontown Downtown Business Authority at 724.430.2909. Historic buildings, churches, and houses date back to two eras of great prosperity, National Road days, 1818-1853; and the Coal and Coke Boom, 1880-1950. The historic district, centered on Main and lower Morgantown Streets, encompasses the original area of the town which was founded July 4, 1776 (sharing its birthday with the nation) and became the county seat of the new County of Fayette seven years later.
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The
Fayette County Courthouse with its tall clock tower, the third to
occupy the same spot, is an outstanding example of Richardsonian
Romanesque architecture, built in 1891-92. It has in the lobby an
eight-foot wooden statue of Lafayette, carved in 1847 by David Blythe,
who became one of the outstanding native-scenes artists of his century.
The statue periodically goes traveling to museums and art exhibits.
Courthouse open 8 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday. 
The
ornate 
The
11 story Fayette Bank Building, with its unique "round corner,"
is a turn-of-the-century monument to its builder, the quintessential
coal baron, J.V Thompson. 
Further
west on Main Street, the White Swan apartments for the elderly perpetuate
the name which first appeared on a tavern in 1805. 
Right
behind it is the Old West School, a log cabin built about 1820.
In the same vicinity, on Main, is the VFW Home, site of the birthplace
and boyhood home of General George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff
in World War II, Secretary of State and Defense, and Nobel Prize
winner. A memorial in his honor will be built on the triangular
plot across the Street, fronted by the World War I "doughboy" monument.
Trinity
United Presbyterian Church, Fayette and Morgantown Streets was built
in 1894 in Richardsonian Romanesque architecture featuring round
stone arches, intricate stone carvings, tall center tower and seven
Tiffany stained glass windows. This was the home church of J.V.
Thompson, Uniontown's leading coal baron. 
St.
Peter's Episcopal Church, 60 Morgantown Street. Built in 1884 in
14th Century English Gothic, it features a Norman tower without
a spire, an intricate patterned slate roof, and one Tiffany window.
This was the home church of General George C. Marshall. 
Great
Bethel Baptist Church , 47 West Fayette Street. Built in 1902, the
entire complex is a unifom example of Gothic Revival architecture.
This congegation descends from the first organized church of any
denomination west of the Allegheny Mountains, founded in 1770. 
Asbury
United Methodist Church, South Beeson Avenue. Dedicated in 1919,
built of Hummelstown brownstone, the church features Tiffany stained
glass windows. This congregation descends from the first Methodist
church in Uniontown, founded in 1785. 
Methodist
Cemetery, 1791, Peter and Arch Streets. (Part of historic district)
Old Settlers Public Cemetery, North Pennsylvania and Bailey Avenues