Over ten miles of trails include walking paths through woods, meadows, on the bluffs overlooking the Monongahela River. These trails provide a glimpse of this area as it was when first settled by Albert Gallatin in the 1780s.
As both secretary of treasury and an American diplomat during the War of 1812, Albert Gallatin was instrumental in both securing the finances to fund the fighting and bringing it to an end through peaceful negotiations.
The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in southwestern Pennsylvania reveals how one region, in a sustained and thunderous blast of innovation, ambition and fire, forever changed America and its place in the world. It is the story of the industrialists and the workers who pushed an infant industry to it ultimate limits and in doing so pushed the world into the Age of Steel.
