Following Braddock's Road ~ Connellsville to Pittsburgh (Part 2)
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Thanks Cliff, know that your hard work and effort to show us real history is greatly appreciated.
Tracing Braddock's Road seems like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You did it well. Nice presentation. Thanks!
Great video and thank you as always for documenting an often forgotten part of Pennsylvania (and in this case, US and World) history.
Welcome to my neck of the woods...considering how built up (and now blighted and urban decayed) it is...its difficult to imagine the banks of the Monongahela being host to a battle that kicked off an early "World War."
PS...welcome to Pittsburgh- I may be getting ahead of myself here but I hope you enjoyed Point State Park- it is one of PA's greatest urban parks. It is truly a site of early conflict, industrialization, and renewal.
Happy Memorial Day to you Cliff, have a great weekend! We really appreciate your time n efforts putting this together. An interesting Washington-Braddock tidbit- years later during the Revolutionary War summer campaign of 1777, Washington wrote in a letter to someone (not sure who) that "he was very upset at having lost a pair of pistols given to him by Genl Braddock over 20 years before, and couldnt find them". Not sure if he ever did locate them, but its another clear sign the 2 bonded, however briefly. Glad youre bringing attention to this campaign!
I’m glad to see you came through my town of Mount Pleasant.I like watching your videos. Keep them coming.
Thanks Cliff for your efforts yes I often think what those ppl would feel if they could return today they would be lost
Great content on Braddock's Road. Out that way it's pronounced yok-o-gainee.
Very Awesome Adventure ☺️❤️🥰‼️
Another good book: Braddock's March by Thomas E. Crocker.
How you found all those windy roads to follow the original path! Great job!
Thank you for the education about Braddock's march and battle. I'm enjoying your videos.
Thanks Cliff for the brilliant tour of Braddocks road .
The French and Indian wars has been one of my favourite history interests
Happy Memorial Day Cliff! As always another great video! Connellsville is the only other stop in PA besides Pittsburgh for the DC to Chicago Amtrak Capitol Limited. Nice area of our state.
Thank you Cliff I haven’t been out that way for so long! Glad your doing some wondering out on this side of Pa! Enjoying your videos.
History comes alive with you.. thanks so much
It was worth it, so much history so little time. Thanks again!
Ride your bike right to the fort. If you hate cities now, just do that for an experience you won't want to repeat. Yes, I did that.
Wild trip, so far. I'm familiar with a few of the places from Mount Pleasant onward. Been to Braddock to check out an old bridge that's now being replaced.
Cliff you put alot into your Videos, They are factual and very interesting, So Thank You, i learned alot today !!! Waiting for the video on The Battle, I'm Hooked ! :-)
Cliff Yeh Road Trips n Scenery Big as always for me
I live about one mile east of camp 17. I would have never known Braddocks road went right past my house. Thanks for this video!
The town of Hunker is where they hunkered down
Cliff,
You have been driving a lot of Roamin', roads...
Roaming all over the place.
Those narrow wooded, winding sections are most surely the original Braddock Road.
Really a great adventure.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Greetings from Gettysburg! love your videos. very informative, keep up the great work!
Looks like a robert griffing painting on the cover of the book
I love your historical videos the best. You make it so much more interesting than just reading about the events.
Great video love the series on F&I war.
Really appreciate all your travels.
Hi Cliff, you could find an app for your phone that gives you sat nav instructions on where to go, you could probably save some money in fuel over the course of say 6 months, just an idea. A brilliant journey filled with historical information and approximate area's of the various camps, that was a huge undertaking that Braddock took on to not only build the road but to make camps and try to keep his men safe whilst doing so.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Not many road labels in the Connellsville area. Frustrating for those of us who live here but are not native to the area. After 9-11 a lot of rural areas got route numbers for roads but the locals don't know them by the route numbers.
More frustrating can asking for directions from the locals. "Turn left where the old VFW used to be" or "take the old tar road" doesn't help much. LOL.
As always , great video ! Cliff
Mt Pleasant, Hunker and Madison, my old stomping grounds .
back in early 80s i hiked the trail in guffy hollow great area.
Great job!
Pretty cool I live on Buffalo Hill road it's a very nice area with a ton of history
Great video thought you were heading to the hood ty Steve
Again, nice video. Such a shame General Braddock was killed when he was so close to getting to Fort Duquesne. Oh, well. At least General Forbes was able to make it there three years later. I'm hoping you'll do the same set of videos of following Forbes Road to Pittsburgh soon.
i look at meditation videos n this video i call cliffs meditation tks
Could you explore the old PA Mainline Canal?
Cliff you missed White Oak by a few miles. On Rt. 30 you went through North Versailles then East Mckeesport. Before you made the left on 148 witch is Fifth ave. You never made it to White Oak. I can take you right to the market of Braddocks Camp.
Hunker.. my aunt lived there.
Who was your Aunt? I grew up in Hunker
Fran Charles, lived on Stonechurch Rd
Fran Charles , lived on Stonechurch rd
Sorry, I did not know her. I grew up in the town of hunker it is a couple miles away from Stone Church Road that is Hunker rd#1
@@djg3996 yes she said that she lives corner of Hunker , Youngwood and Hempfield twp.
wow that bridge over the Monongahela is a long one! which bridge was it?McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge?
Not sure which one that was.
Which bridge are you referring to? The first crossing or the second crossing?
@@danielfoster3642 I guess at the beginning- it seemed very long
@@superditdit48 The first bridge he crossed is called the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge.
Any idea how deep the Monongahela River is (in July) where Braddock's men crossed it?
Love this series. Also did anyone else notice the guy in the white car run that red light at 44:13 :(
I didn't see the white car at 44:13 but we saw the Jeep called Naomi drive through a stop sign without stopping at 45:01. Oops. 😲
How did a bunch of soldiers build a road in those days? No machinery. Did each man carry a shovel?
Lots of axes, picks & wooden shovels!! Plus a ton of human muscle!!
Mules & horses for rock removal. Prybars & cross cut saws.
42:26
Kennywood
There used to be a sign in Kennywood by where the log jammer used to be that said the crossing was right in that area. They supposedly lost some troops during the river crossing.
@@54cal54 I think that sign is still there. There is also a statue of George Washington in the park.
Hunker, is where Elias Island sent their Hungary immigrates to disseminate to coal mines and steel mills