PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 306 PRINTER'S NO. 2337
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
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 20, 2001
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Urging support for development of Legionville as a national <--
2 LOGSTOWN/LEGIONVILLE AS A PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL park and <--
3 historical center.
4 WHEREAS, Efforts have been under way since 1915 by
5 governmental officials and numerous organizations and historical
6 groups around the United States to establish the Legionville
7 National Historic Site in Harmony Township, Beaver County; and
8 WHEREAS, This 22-acre site is of national significance and is <--
9 WHEREAS, THIS 28-ACRE SITE IS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE TO THE <--
10 AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IS the largest unrestored historical site in
11 Pennsylvania to be listed in the National Registry; and <--
12 WHEREAS, Legionville dates to 1000 years before Christ as an
13 Early Woodland Adena American Indian cultural inhabitation site;
14 and
15 WHEREAS, The Legionville area was the historical capital of
1 the Delaware and Shawnee Indians from 1725 to 1754 and was
2 called Logstown; and
3 WHEREAS, The first Christian religious ceremony in
4 Pennsylvania west of the Allegheny Mountains was performed on
5 this site in 1749; and
6 WHEREAS, Legionville was the site of the Treaties of Logstown
7 of 1748-1753 which gave the Virginia government the right to
8 establish its fort at the forks of the Ohio where the city of
9 Pittsburgh is now located; and
10 WHEREAS, Major George Washington held councils at the
11 Legionville site which helped establish the British American
12 foothold on the Western Frontier and precipitated the events of
13 the French and Indian War of 1755; and
14 WHEREAS, In 1792 President George Washington asked his
15 Revolutionary War General, Major General Anthony Wayne of
16 Pennsylvania, to establish and train the First American Legion
17 at Legionville, the first formal military training camp of the
18 United States Army; and
19 WHEREAS, Original revetments and trenches of 1792 remain, as
20 do traces of the Pittsburgh to Beaver Wagon Road of 1806; and
21 WHEREAS, Establishment and development of the Legionville <--
22 National Park A LOGSTOWN/LEGIONVILLE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL <--
23 PARK AND HISTORICAL CENTER will lend to the preservation of our
24 heritage and the promotion of our economy; therefore be it
25 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
26 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania support the development of
27 Legionville as a national park and historical center and urge <--
28 Congress and the President to appropriate the necessary funds
29 for this purpose; and be it further LOGSTOWN/LEGIONVILLE AS A <--
30 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL PARK AND HISTORICAL CENTER; AND BE IT
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1 FURTHER
2 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
3 THE GOVERNOR, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, the presiding <--
4 officers of each house of Congress and to each member of
5 Congress from Pennsylvania TO URGE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE <--
6 DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOGSTOWN/LEGIONVILLE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL
7 PARK AND HISTORICAL CENTER.
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