Forbes Road markers have also been erected in Allegheny, Bedford, and Somerset counties.Makati City is known as the financial center of the Philippines because of the high amount of multinational and local corporations built here. In Fulton County, there is a marker along US 522, 0.2 miles southwest of Burnt Cabins. In Cumberland County, there are markers along US 11 southwest of Carlisle and one mile northeast of Shippensburg. In Westmoreland County, a Forbes Road marker is located along US 22, 1.2 miles east of Murrysville. Many historical markers indicate locations along the original route where Forbes traveled with his army. In contrast to the Forbes Road's successors, the National Road, now 40, largely followed Braddock's Road across the Appalachian Mountains from Cumberland into Pennsylvania. Still later, a portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( Interstate 76) largely followed a portion of the Forbes Road from Bedford over the Appalachian mountains to Carlisle. Route 30) largely followed the Forbes Road between Latrobe and Bedford. Route 22 largely followed portions of the Forbes Road from Monroeville through a town now named "Forbes Road" and Hannastown to Latrobe. The Forbes Road provided a more direct route to Ohio Country through Pennsylvania compared to Braddock's Road, which was constructed west from Cumberland, Maryland, then north into Pennsylvania. Construction of the Forbes Road made transportation of supplies, soldiers, messages, and trade easier between the eastern farms and cities and western portions of Pennsylvania, and provided an important route west for settlers. Forbes then built a much larger fort on the site, naming it Fort Pitt. Forbes avoided Braddock's Road and encounters with the enemy before the expedition reached Fort Duquesne.įorbes' army captured Fort Duquesne from the French army on November 25, 1758. Benefiting from the experience of Braddock's ill-fated 1755 military expedition, Forbes constructed forts at regular intervals along the new road and established supply lines between the forts. Like General Edward Braddock, General Forbes faced great difficulty when transporting his army and artillery to Fort Duquesne through a wilderness previously traveled only by indigenous tribes and fur traders.
Forbes Road from Fort Bedford to Ford Duquesne, and Braddock's Road from Fort Cumberland to Fort Duquesne.
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