It is located in the Brownsville Commercial Historic District and supports lower Market Street, the local main thoroughfare and lower town 'main street'. Facing north from Dunlap's Creek, looking up Market Street and along the eastward direction of National Road, the town and street layout forms the shape of a huge check-mark, climbing for several city blocks, then bending sharply more than 90 degrees and climbing the ridge of the drainage divide between the two tributary valleys to far off Cumberland, Maryland at the head of the Potomac River and the port of Baltimore, Maryland. This made each of these municipalities a key overland waypoint on the near-west Emigrant Trail as Americans began colonizing the midwest. • Due to the steep sides of the Monongahela River valley, there is only room for two short streets parallel to the river's shore and graded mild enough to be comfortable to walk before the terrain rises too steeply for business traffic. BOTH are visible in this view. The square concrete arch is actually a building foundation, the other lower street is visible in the far distance.
• Background: Two right bank large tributary streams of the Monongahela River drainage basin along the west side of the Allegheny Mountains barrier range, Redstone Creek and Dunlap's Creek, created conditions that formed a valuable ramp-like sloped terrain enabling Amerindians (for centuries) and colonials to reach a ford (crossing) the wide barrier of the Monongahela. Descending between the two small rivers, Nemacolin's Trail/the National Pike path has to cross Dunbar street to reach the ford on the upstream side of the confluence. The same two creeks and cross-river flats of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania became centers of river boat construction, giving Brownsville a historic edge as a industrial and outfitting center in near-western communities keeping it larger than Pittsburgh into the 1850s.
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1947
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2013
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one of the photographers employed by the U.S. National Park Service on the Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record projects
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