West Virginia eastwards to the junction with Braddock's Road in Uniontown by Bowman near Redstone Old Fort and this crossing, at what became a major link in the first National Road at what is today the towns of West Brownsville and Brownsville. The early settlement around the fort also came to be called Redstone, but eventually became known as Brownsville, Pennsylvania after its farsighted developer Thomas Brown. The use of "Redstone" devolved to apply to just one of its neighborhoods. Redstone Old Fort is mentioned in C. M. Ewing's The Causes of That So Called Whiskey Insurrection of 1794 (1930) as being the site of a July 27, 1791, meeting in "Opposition to the Whiskey Excise Tax," during the Whiskey Rebellion. It was the first illegal meeting of that insurrection. In 1803 Meriwether Lewis mentioned Redstone Old Fort in a letter to President Thomas Jefferson, in which he detailed his route from Harper's Ferry to Pittsburgh. William Trent established the Hangard in January–February 1754 before moving on to join the construction crew working to build a fort on the Forks of the Ohio See also Fort Gaddis - Built ca. 1770, this is the oldest surviving building in Fayette County. It served as both a homestead and frontier fort. Notes References Bibliography External links Brownsville Nemacolin-Bowman Castle museum "A Map of the Land about Red Stone and Fort Pitt," Used by George Washington from the World Digital Library Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Pennsylvania Forts in Pennsylvania Colonial forts in Pennsylvania History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania