This is to inform people in Duquesne's A.M.E. program
        about Fort McIntosh, an historic site I discovered last
        Sunday while in Beaver, Pa. Fort McIntosh was the site
        of a treaty between the Pennsylvania commissioners--
        Conrad Weiser, George Rogers Clark, etc., and Chiefs of
        the Six Nations, which ceded all of Western Pa. to the
        United States, in return for $2000 worth of trade goods.
        It was also the home of the first American Regiment, and
        the westernmost outpost of the fledgling American army
        after the revolution.

           It is located on a high bluff above the Ohio River,
        some four blocks south of the Beaver county courthouse.
        The fort was about two hundred yards long by about fifty
        yards wide, and the foundations are still there. It is a
        nice place to spend twenty minutes or so. Beaver county
        was also the site of Logstown--a large Native settlement,
        and Anthony Wayne trained his troops at a site just outside
        of present-day Ambridge in 1793.

                                                Steven Bernstein