3025 National Pike
Daisytown, PA 15427The monument is located on U.S. Route 40, across from the Nemacolin Country Club, Beallsville, Pennsylvania (about twelve miles east of Washington). Access to the monument is available from a small roadside pull-off.
This monument was dedicated on December 8, 1928. The monument was rededicated in October, 1978.
Inscriptions are found on all four faces. The inscriptions read:
South Face: MADONNA OF THE TRAIL N.S.D.A.R. MEMORIAL TO THE PIONEER MOTHERS OF THE COVERED WAGON DAYS
East Face: ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT THE HUNTING GROUND OF THE FRIENDLY INDIAN NEMACOLIN. THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED AND DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR PIONEER MOTHERS.
North Face: THE NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD
West Face: ERECTED IN NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THE OLDEST COUNTY WEST OF THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR THE FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY.
A bronze plaque has been placed at the foot of the monument. It reads:
MADONNA OF THE TRAIL PRESENTED AND DEDICATED DECEMBER 8, 1928 BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION RESTORED 1990 BY THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MRS. THOMAS G. BURKEY, STATE REGENT. REDEDICATED JUNE 23, 1990.
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