Edwin Franko Goldman

1878 – 1956

A Landmark of American Music

The Guggenheim Concerts by the world renowned Goldman Band were played here “on the mall” every summer from 1923 to 1969.

Presented by the

National Music Council and Exxon

[Seal of the ...

Ryerson's Blockhouse

Near here stood one of three blockhouses erected by Captain James Paul's company in 1792, during the State's last troubles with the Indians. On April 17, 1792, soldiers carrying supplies from the Thomas Ryerson mill clashed with an Indian war ...

Old Glassworks

On this site, the first glass factory west of the Monongahela River was established in 1805 through the stimulating influence of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. Glass was made here until 1849.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Belvedere Tower

Erected in 1869 as a lookout. It now houses the New York Meteorological Observatory which was founded in 1868 by Dr. Daniel Draper who was its director until his retirement in 1912. At which time the observatory came under the ...

Monongahela College

This was first Baptist college in western Pennsylvania. It was begun by Ten Mile Baptist Assn. in 1867, opened in 1869, and in 1871 chartered by legislature. Operated 1869-1888; reopened 1890 and finally closed 1894. College building, erected 1871, lies ...

Graysville, PA

Approximately 100 yards N.E. is former site of Fort Enoch built by Henry Enoch Sr. son of Enoch Enix ca. 1767 for protection against Indians.

Pioneer David Gray for whom this village is named, tomahawked a homestead of 2174 A. here ...

French Tricolor

Bicentennial Flag Memorial

With the Revolution won and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States was extended westward to the Mississippi River. To the west of the Mississippi, the French Tricolor waved over French Louisiana until ...

Thirteen Star Flag (Bennington Flag)

Bicentennial Flag Memorial

With the signing of the Declaration of Indepenence, the Grand Union was automatically promoted to the status of a national banner and at the same time rendered obsolete. The British ties were snapped and the crosses of St. ...

Grand Union Flag

Bicentennial Flag Memorial

The first national flag is commonly identified as the Grand Union Flag. Although it was never officially approved or recognized, it was this flag that came to symbolize the growing pride in the name America and the strengthening ...

The Abraham Tegarden Family

Abraham (1718-1781) and Mary Parker Tegarden from Frederick County, Virginia 1753, made an 'improvement' opposite mouth of Tenmile Creek, Fayette County; Abraham, sutler for Col. Bouquet 1759, fought in French and Indian War, Capt. Virginia Militia 1775, American Revolutionary record, ...