Redstone Creek (Pennsylvania)

rdf:langString Redstone Creek (Pennsylvania)

rdf:langString Redstone Creek

rdf:langString Redstone Creek

rdf:langString about 3 miles east of Fairchance, Pennsylvania

rdf:langString Coal Lick Run

rdf:langString Jennings Run

rdf:langString Colvin Run

rdf:langString Cove Run

rdf:langString Lick Run

rdf:langString Rankin Run

rdf:langString Allen Run

rdf:langString Bolden Run

rdf:langString Crabapple Run

rdf:langString Shear Hollow

rdf:langString Washwater Run

rdf:langString Hutchinson Reservoir No.1

rdf:langString Hutchinson Reservoir No.2

rdf:langString Hutchinson Reservoir No.3

rdf:langString Pennsylvania#USA

rdf:langString Location of Redstone Creek mouth

rdf:langString Georges Creek divide on west side of Chestnut Ridge

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rdf:langString northwest

rdf:langString Redstone Creek is a historically important widemouthed canoe and river boat-navigable brook-sized tributary stream of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The creek is 28.4 miles (45.7 km) long, running from headwaters on Chestnut Ridge north through the city of Uniontown and reaching the Monongahela at Brownsville. Located in a 1/4-mile-wide valley with low streambanks, the site was ideal for ship building in a region geologically most often characterized by steep-plunging relatively inaccessible banks — wide enough to launch and float several large boats, and indeed steamboats after 1811, and slow-moving enough to provide good docks and parking places while craft were outfitting. Brownsville, at the mouth of Redstone Creek, was an important center for boat-building, including the manufacture of paddlewheel steamboats that traveled as far as New Orleans, and, later, the upper navigable part of the Missouri. Flatboat construction is documented at the site from 1782, and the Braddock Expedition established a supply base (blockhouse) on the stream's south bank which the French destroyed after first taking Fort Necessity in 1754. The creek hosting this important activity played a critical role in the transshipment of goods and settlers in the Mississippi Basin, as it enabled the other industries in and around Brownsville to outfit and equip the settlers headed west. Nestled in the foothills on the west side of the mountains, Brownsville was a gateway funneling settlers to the Ohio Country, the lands of the Louisiana Territory, and did so until well after 1853, when railroads reached the Missouri River at Kanesville, Iowa (one Emigrant Trails destination of the town's flatboats), the far west and the Oregon Country —for the town astride the shortest, if not the easiest, land route across the great barrier to east-west traffic presented by the Allegheny Mountains.

rdf:langString at mouth with Monongahela River

rdf:langString about 0.25 miles north of Brownsville, Pennsylvania

rdf:langString Tributary to Monongahela River