PRINTER'S NO. 2745
No. 335 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY LAUGHLIN, WOJNAROSKI, GABIG, SOLOBAY, TRAVAGLIO,
FAIRCHILD, D. EVANS, MARKOSEK, HERMAN, HARHAI, READSHAW,
GRUCELA, B. SMITH, SATHER, SCHULER, MELIO, BELFANTI, JAMES,
GEORGE, CRUZ, CREIGHTON, JOSEPHS, J. WILLIAMS, PISTELLA,
BEBKO-JONES, KELLER, GEIST, ROSS, YOUNGBLOOD, WALKO, SAINATO,
LESCOVITZ, HERSHEY, ROBINSON, DeWEESE, HORSEY, ROBERTS,
TRICH, L. I. COHEN, CORRIGAN, DALEY, COY, MANDERINO,
LaGROTTA, PETRONE AND STEELMAN, OCTOBER 24, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS,
OCTOBER 24, 2001
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee of the
2 United States Postal Service to consider and recommend to the
3 United States Postal Service Board of Governors the issuance
4 of a commemorative stamp recognizing the national historic
5 importance of the Logstown-Legion Ville historical site.
6 WHEREAS, The colonial history of Great Britain and her
7 American Colonies, France and her North American territories and
8 Native Americans relating to events leading up to and through
9 the French and Indian War and the early national history of the
10 United States of America, Great Britain and the Native Americans
11 relating to the conquest of the Northwest Territory have a
12 unique common meeting point at the Logstown-Legion Ville
13 historic site on the eastern banks of the Ohio River north of
14 Pittsburgh; and
15 WHEREAS, Logstown, constructed in 1747 by the French as a
16 settlement for Native Americans living in western Pennsylvania
1 and Ohio, was a major trading point for French and English
2 traders and the Native Americans and was located on or adjacent
3 to a site of numerous Native American settlements dating to 6500
4 B.C. which confirm the important and strategic nature of this
5 site; and
6 WHEREAS, From 1748 through 1753, a number of prominent
7 Pennsylvania and Virginia colonists including, but not limited
8 to, George Washington, Conrad Weiser and George Croghan visited
9 Logstown on numerous occasions as representatives of their
10 respective colonial governments in attempts to maintain peace
11 or, if war was inevitable, then to determine the extent of
12 cooperation between the French and Native Americans, the
13 likelihood of attacks and raids on the western boundaries of the
14 colonies, the terrain, fortifications and distances between
15 villages and forts and the members of potential raiders; and
16 WHEREAS, After the defeat of the French and their Native
17 American allies by British and colonial forces under the
18 direction of General John Forbes, Logstown was abandoned and
19 further mention of that site ceased; and
20 WHEREAS, In the late 1700s, during and after the American
21 Revolution, conditions on the western frontier of the United
22 States were extremely volatile and politically complex with:
23 (1) treaties, including the key Fort Stanwix Treaty of
24 1768 being made, broken, ignored or misinterpreted;
25 (2) pioneers, fur traders, land speculators and others
26 flooding west in search of the supposed riches contained in
27 the area; and
28 (3) the British, still in possession of forts on the
29 frontier, manipulating the Native Americans into constant and
30 bloody raids on frontier settlements;
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2 WHEREAS, In November 1792, Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne,
3 under orders from President George Washington to create a
4 disciplined fighting force capable of subdividing the Native
5 Americans on the northwestern frontier, and the newly legislated
6 Legion of the United States consisting of between 2,000 and
7 2,500 new recruits landed at the site of the former Logstown and
8 proceeded to construct a camp of 500 structures known as Legion
9 Ville; and
10 WHEREAS, At Legion Ville, General Wayne, through a
11 combination of unmerciful drilling, strict discipline and
12 rewards, built an effective fighting force having high skills,
13 pride and esprit de corps; and
14 WHEREAS, From Legion Ville, General Wayne initiated the
15 campaign to subject the Northwest Territory which ended in 1794
16 with the Battle of Fallen Timbers and was confirmed with the
17 Treaty of Greenville in 1795; and
18 WHEREAS, Logstown and Legion Ville have played a significant
19 part in the history of the United States; therefore be it
20 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
21 memorialize the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee of the United
22 States Postal Service Board of Governors to consider and
23 recommend to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors
24 the issue of a commemorative stamp recognizing the national
25 historic importance of the Logstown-Legion Ville historic site;
26 and be it further
27 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
28 the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee of the United States
29 Postal Service.
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