re: #45 Anymouse 🌹

Heh, thanks for posting the Cox Farms article!

You remind me that I have been meaning to get out that way to support them.

They are located at the intersection of Braddock and Pleasant Valley roads. The area suburbanized now due to heavy building over the past 50 years.

But Braddock Road is named after the guy who had the road built, General Edward Braddock. Who started marching his Army from Alexandria, Virginia and built a fricking road across the Allegheny Mountains. (At the time they did not even know how wide the Allegheny Mountains were. Or even how far away Pittsburgh was.) It ended just short of Pittsburgh near where Kennywood is, when he was ambushed, fatally wounded and his Army destroyed at Turtle Creek on July 9, 1755. (And if you look at the map of that area, you will again see Braddock Avenue. Although it is on the historically wrong side of the river.)

And Pleasant Valley Road was used by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in fall 1862 after the 2nd Battle of Bull Run to march his troops north to what is now US 50 and then, on US 50, east towards Washington DC. The fought a battle, basically at the Fair Oaks Mall and then marched to the next hilltop. His boss, Robert E Lee decided there were too many fortifications around Washington DC. And so Lee marched his Army north across the Potomac River to a small Maryland town called Sharpsburg, where they deployed along the banks of the Antietam Creek. The Union Army followed and attacked the Confederates. The battle was a draw. But resulted in the bloodiest day of warfare in US history. The Confederates eventually retreated back to Virginia.