Espy House
Pennsylvania
The Espy House in Bedford, Pennsylvania, is a stone tavern and residence built around seventeen seventy, making it one of the oldest surviving structures in the Allegheny Mountain region. It stood at the edge of the American frontier during the Revolution, along Forbes Road, the military track that connected the eastern colonies to Fort Pitt at present-day Pittsburgh. President George Washington stopped here in seventeen ninety-four during the Whiskey Rebellion, one of the few times a sitting president personally led troops in the field.
Washington came to crush the tax revolt by western Pennsylvania farmers who refused to pay the federal excise on whiskey. The Espy House served as his temporary headquarters. It is a National Historic Landmark and one of the most direct physical connections remaining to Washington's presidency outside the East Coast capitals.
