General Info

Fayette County, carved from Westmoreland County in 1783, the named for the Marquis de Lafayette, which is a French hero who aided the American colonists in their fight for freedom from England. Early exploration and mapping of the rich forests and fertile valleys of this region done by Thomas Cresap and Christopher Gist in In the large tract of land known as Gist Plantation, is near in the current site of the Isaac Meason House, a National Historic Landmark near Mt. Braddock.