Braddock's Battlefield History Center is a small American museum and visitors center that is located on the site of theBattle of the Monongahela of July 9, 1755.[1]
It features a collection of art, documents, and artifacts about theBraddock Expedition and theFrench and Indian War as it unfolded at theForks of the Ohio. Located seven miles (11 km) east of downtownPittsburgh inNorth Braddock, Pennsylvania, it is housed in a renovated car dealership along with a small gymnastics company on a three-acre parcel on a hillside that overlooks theMonongahela River Valley and the historicEdgar Thomson Works ofUnited States Steel.[2]
The museum was created by Robert T. Messner, a retired Pittsburgh lawyer and grandfather, with the support of local foundations, and it opened to the public on August 18, 2012.[3]
In December 2018, Messner donated the History Center to Fort Ligonier, which has operated the Center since May 2019.[4]
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