Braddock's Battlefield History Center is a small American museum and visitors center on the site of the

Battle of the Monongahela The Battle of the Monongahela (also known as the Battle of Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on July 9, 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War at Braddock's Field in present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania, ...

of July 9, 1755. It features a collection of art, documents, and artifacts about the

Braddock Expedition The Braddock Expedition, also known as Braddock's Campaign or Braddock's Defeat, was a British Empire, British military expedition which attempted to capture Fort Duquesne from the French colonial empire, French in 1755 during the French and Ind ...

and the

French and Indian War The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a colonial conflict in North America between Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of France, France, along with their respective Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...

as it unfolded at the Forks of the Ohio. Located east of downtown

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...

North Braddock, Pennsylvania North Braddock is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River. The 2020 census had the borough population at 4,320. It is a suburb east of Pittsburgh. Organized from a part of Braddock Township in 18 ...

, it is housed in a renovated car dealership along with a small gymnastics company on a three-acre parcel on a hillside that overlooks the

Monongahela River The Monongahela River ( , ), sometimes referred to locally as the Mon (), is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river on the Allegheny Plateau in nor ...

Valley and the historic Edgar Thomson Works of

United States Steel The United States Steel Corporation is an American steel company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It maintains production facilities at several additional locations in the U.S. and Central Europe. The company produces and sells steel products, ...

. The museum was created by Robert T. Messner, a retired Pittsburgh lawyer and grandfather, with the support of local foundations, and it opened to the public on August 18, 2012. In December 2018, Messner donated the History Center to Fort Ligonier, which has operated the Center since May 2019.

References

*Marylynne Pitz (2012)
Braddock's Battlefield History Center Opening: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Retrieved August 20, 2006.

External links

Braddock's Battlefield History Center website
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