Summit Hotel and Golf Club Brochure - Americana - Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Brochure for the Summit Hotel and Golf Club of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Fold out of large map of the National Highway.

Uniontown was founded in 1776 as "the Town of Union" by Henry Beeson, a Quaker born in Virginia in 1743 who had settled in the area in 1768, buying tracts of land and running a sawmill. On July 4 (coincidentally, the same date the United States Declaration of Independence was adopted), Beeson published a plat of quarter-acre plots near his mill to be allocated by lottery on 20 July to purchasers prepared to build houses on them. In early years the town was sometimes unofficially called "Beesonstown", though not by Beeson. In 1783 Fayette County was erected and divided into townships, of which Union Township contained the namesake town. The town was incorporated as a borough in 1796 under the name Uniontown and separated from Union Township, which was split in 1851 into North Union and South Union Townships.

The National Road, also known as the Cumberland Road, was routed through Uniontown in the early 19th century, and the town grew along with the road (now US 40). Uniontown's role in the Underground Railroad in the antebellum years is commemorated by a marker on the corner of East Main Street and Baker Alley. Residents helped slaves escaping from the South to freedom. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniontown,_Pennsylvania

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