Historic Sites in The Alleghenies 7
Battlefields, historic houses, forts, mining towns, railroad landmarks and lighthouses.
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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
Remains of the 1830s railroad that hauled canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains on inclined planes, with a historic tavern, trails and the first railroad tunnel in the country.
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Horseshoe Curve
The great 1854 railroad curve that carried the Pennsylvania Railroad over the Alleghenies, still busy with freight trains and viewed from a trackside park reached by funicular.
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East Broad Top Railroad
A three-foot-gauge railroad from the 1870s brought back to life, with steam excursions from Rockhill and an unusually complete set of old shops, roundhouse and yards.
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Fort Roberdeau
A reconstructed log stockade of 1778, built to protect lead mining in Sinking Valley during the Revolution, with a visitor center and nature trails.
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial
The remains of the South Fork Dam, whose collapse on May 31, 1889 unleashed the flood that killed more than 2,200 people downstream, with a visitor center telling the story.
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Johnstown Inclined Plane
Built in 1891, after the great flood, as an escape route to high ground, a steep funicular big enough to carry cars, topped by an overlook of the city.
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Old Bedford Village
A re-created village of log and frame buildings where costumed interpreters demonstrate frontier trades and daily life of the 1700s and 1800s.
