Simon GIRTY from 1942 newspaper

DO YOU KNOW that Colonel CRAWFORD, frontiersman, guide, scout, farmer, surveyor and Indian fighter stood near to his friend, Colonel WASHINGTON?  The same CRAWFORD who fought throughout the Revolution and then retired to his lovely farm near Connellsville.  From his tranquil life here he was called upon to put down an Indian uprising in the Northwest.  CRAWFORD was captured by the Indians and no where does history tell of more terrible methods of inflicting death than those inflicted upon CRAWFORD.  The Indians were led on by Simon GIRTY, one of the cruelest white men that [sic=who ] ever lived.  CRAWFORD Avenue, Connellsville, was named to do CRAWFORD honor.

DO YOU KNOW that Daniel MORGAN destined to be commander of "MORGAN's Riflemen," conceded to be the finest fighting unit in this Continental Army, was but a teamster?  The same MORGAN who twenty-two years later together with Benedict ARNOLD was to win the great battle of Saratoga, the turning point of the war.  And lying wounded was Horatio GATES, the man who so nearly lost that same battle but took wholly to himself all the glory of victory.  And---lying wounded was that gallant Scotchman Dr. Hugh MERCER, who in January, 1777, gave to our nation its second victory, the victory at Princeton and who died in so doing.  And--acting as a teamster's aid was 13 ? 18? year old Edward LACEY who led the Chester troops to victory at King's mountains.

And-- Ralph BURTON who led the Royal Americans at Quebec was one of this Army.  Without BURTON's support WOLFE quite likely would have failed.  And-- another young man was Lt. SUMTER, "The Fighting Cock of South Carolina," SUMTER, with MARION and PICKENS made life most unpleasant for TARLETON and CORNWALLIS.  The same SUMTER who was honored by South Carolina giving to her most formidable fort his name.  The same Fort Sumter that saw the American flag hauled down in '61, to be raised again in '65 [i.e. 1861 and 1865].

And do you know---that at long last---we find a royalist, Thomas GAGE, last colonial governor of Massachusetts and first military autocrat of America?  We associate GAGE with Lexington and Concord, and Bunker Hill.

DO YOU KNOW that Brownsville is undoubtedly Fayette's history center?  The 

DO YOU KNOW where the above information was obtained?  1. NELSON's History of Fayette County, ELLIS' History of Fayette County, SEARIGHT's "Old Pike,"  VEECH's "Monogahela of Old," HART's "Three Towns" and "Fort necessity and Historic Shrines of the Redstone Country."