Saturday, May 31
10:00 am to Noon
$25 per person
This tour is limited to 20 participants.
Located about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, the city of Washington, PA is perhaps best known as a key site in the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s and as the home of Washington & Jefferson College.
It also is the seat of Washington County—the first county in America to bear the president’s name—and the home of the country’s first National Historic Landmark of the Underground Railroad. Our tour will take in a bit of both town and gown, starting with a handful of Washington & Jefferson College’s most historic buildings.
On walking to downtown Washington, we will visit, among other buildings, the LeMoyne House of 1812 and the George Washington Hotel—designated a Historic Hotel of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation for “faithfully maintaining its historic integrity, architecture, and ambiance.”
You will leave Washington with a new appreciation of this city on the National Road, America’s first highway constructed, beginning in 1811, entirely with federal funds.