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Fort Necessity battlefield receives money
Monday, October 16, 2000
Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington, Fayette County, has received two major grants to help develop an interpretive and educational visitors center.The Richard King Mellon Foundation gave $400,000 and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation gave $120,000 toward the project.
A joint project of the National Park Service, the state and private groups, the new center would serve both Fort Necessity National Battlefield and the National Road State Heritage Park.
The visitors center will be the only one in the National Park Service dedicated to telling the story of the French and Indian War, and of young George Washington's first military foray.
It will also convey the dramatic story of the National Road, and its importance to the political, social and economic development of the United States as a nation.
The center will feature interactive information kiosks that will help visitors plan trips to other French and Indian War sites and other National Road sites, as well as to the range of historical, cultural and recreational attractions throughout the Laurel Highlands and Pittsburgh region.
The project already has received major federal support as well as a grant from the Eberly Foundation and the Pennsylvania State Heritage Parks Program. Fort Necessity is part of the "War for Empire Consortium," a group of regional French and Indian War sites that includes Fort Ligonier, Bushy Run, Fort Pitt and Braddock's Field.
In anticipation of national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War in 2004, the Working Together Consortium of Pittsburgh is helping the group in marketing and site improvements.
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