About one mile to the southward stood the Great Crossing of the Youghiogheny, Squaw's Fort Camp, and Spears Tavern. On his tour to the Ohio in 1753, Major George Washington encamped here at the Big Fork, the Great Crossings, on November 17, 1753. Lieutenant Colonel George Washington encamped here from May 18-24, 1754. Again in 1755, 1770, and 1784, he forded the Youghiogheny at the mouth of Braddock Run at the Great Crossings, and Braddock encamped at Squaw's Fort on June 23, 1755.