PRINTER'S NO. 306
No. 27 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY LAUGHLIN, PETRONE, YOUNGBLOOD, LESCOVITZ, GEORGE,
BELARDI, MELIO, BARRAR, ORIE, B. SMITH, CALTAGIRONE,
MANDERINO, FAIRCHILD, WALKO, SCHULER, TRAVAGLIO, SOLOBAY,
READSHAW, GEIST, HENNESSEY, STABACK, WOJNAROSKI, HERSHEY,
PISTELLA, DeWEESE, GRUCELA, CORRIGAN, J. EVANS, TANGRETTI,
COSTA, FORCIER, M. COHEN, BEBKO-JONES, PIPPY, JOSEPHS,
HORSEY, SAINATO, STEELMAN, PRESTON, McCALL, CLYMER, VEON,
COLAFELLA, LaGROTTA, SHANER AND HARHAI, JANUARY 31, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS,
JANUARY 31, 2001
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Urging support for development of Legionville as a national park
2 and historical center.
3 WHEREAS, Efforts have been under way since 1915 by
4 governmental officials and numerous organizations and historical
5 groups around the United States to establish the Legionville
6 National Historic Site in Harmony Township, Beaver County; and
7 WHEREAS, This 22-acre site is of national significance and is
8 the largest unrestored historical site in Pennsylvania to be
9 listed in the National Registry; and
10 WHEREAS, Legionville dates to 1000 years before Christ as an
11 Early Woodland Adena American Indian cultural inhabitation site;
12 and
13 WHEREAS, The Legionville area was the historical capital of
14 the Delaware and Shawnee Indians from 1725 to 1754 and was
1 called Logstown; and
2 WHEREAS, The first Christian religious ceremony in
3 Pennsylvania west of the Allegheny Mountains was performed on
4 this site in 1749; and
5 WHEREAS, Legionville was the site of the Treaties of Logstown
6 of 1748-1753 which gave the Virginia government the right to
7 establish its fort at the forks of the Ohio where the city of
8 Pittsburgh is now located; and
9 WHEREAS, Major George Washington held councils at the
10 Legionville site which helped establish the British American
11 foothold on the Western Frontier and precipitated the events of
12 the French and Indian War of 1755; and
13 WHEREAS, In 1792 President George Washington asked his
14 Revolutionary War General, Major General Anthony Wayne of
15 Pennsylvania, to establish and train the First American Legion
16 at Legionville, the first formal military training camp of the
17 United States Army; and
18 WHEREAS, Original revetments and trenches of 1792 remain, as
19 do traces of the Pittsburgh to Beaver Wagon Road of 1806; and
20 WHEREAS, Establishment and development of the Legionville
21 National Park will lend to the preservation of our heritage and
22 the promotion of our economy; therefore be it
23 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
24 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania support the development of
25 Legionville as a national park and historical center and urge
26 Congress and the President to appropriate the necessary funds
27 for this purpose; and be it further
28 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
29 the presiding officers of each house of Congress and to each
30 member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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