Logstown Site (Economy, PA)

The site of Logstown, a multi-tribal Native American trading and diplomatic center on the Ohio River about eighteen miles below the Forks, used through the mid-eighteenth century as a meeting ground for British, French, and Native diplomacy. Although largely abandoned by the Revolutionary period, it represents the pre-war diplomatic landscape that shaped the alliances and conflicts of frontier warfare. Treaty negotiations at Logstown in 1752 foreshadowed the conflicts that drew Pittsburgh into the center of continental warfare.