This is the past of America but it is also the present, a severe, social lag. Christopher Gist, who saved George Washington's life, built a log house on the land that was an encampment of General Edward Braddock during the first attempt to take over Fort Duquesne from the French in 1755. Later Isaac Meason erected a huge stone house for his Plumstock Iron Works in 1802. People in bondage labored on his plantation. Two formal matching stone quarters are on both sides of the main house–one for slaves and the other for Meason's office. (location near Union Town, Pennsylvania off US 19) This state had numerous plantations. Hopefully the United States of America will move forward in justice for all as racism is finally banishing from people's hearts and minds for the future.
World Enlighten News, W.E.N.
H. C. Smith, co-author of A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania; also orchestrated American Africans and American Indians to be permitted to join private country clubs
