Museums in Laurel Highlands 4
Art, history, science, railroad and children's museums.
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Fort Ligonier
A full-scale reconstruction of the British fort built in 1758 during the Forbes campaign, with earthworks, cannon and a museum of French and Indian War artifacts.
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Somerset Historical Center
Rural life in the Laurel Highlands, told through a 1770s settler's cabin, an early farmstead, a maple sugar camp and the relocated 1859 Walter's Mill covered bridge.
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West Overton Village
A 19th-century distilling village where Old Overholt rye whiskey began and industrialist Henry Clay Frick was born, with museums in its old brick and stone buildings.
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Westmoreland Museum of American Art
American art from colonial portraits to contemporary work, with special strength in the artists and landscapes of southwestern Pennsylvania, in a light-filled, expanded building.
