Fayette County Bicentennial

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Fayette County Bicentennial This year’s Fayette County bicenten­nial celebration has done much to give run her impetus to a reawakening of the interest in county history and heritage so evident in recent years. The bicentennial had its official open­ing in conjunction with the American­ism Day parade, sponsored by Lafayette Post 51 of the American Legion, in Uniontown on May 2. That event itself was in a sense...
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Fayette at the Crossroads

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Fayette at the Crossroads Fayette County has always been at the crossroads, both literally and figuratively, its destiny shaped by its location, the incredible riches of its natural resources and the vi­tality of a people descended from al­most every nation of Europe. It has a son of dual personality, geo­graphically divided between mountains and lowlands, historically divided into two almost equal eras of economic...
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