page_title: Redstone Creek (Pennsylvania)
section_title: Additional Images
hierarchical_section_title: Redstone Creek (Pennsylvania) / Additional Images
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the watershed of Redstone Creek (Monongahela River tributary) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Redstone Creek is a historically important widemouthed canoe and river boat-navigable brook-sized tributary stream of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The creek is 28.4 miles long, running from headwaters on Chestnut Ridge north through the city of Uniontown and reaching the Monongahela at Brownsville. Located in a 1/4-mile-wide valley with low streambanks, the site was ideal for ship building in a region geologically most often characterized by steep-plunging relatively inaccessible banks — wide enough to launch and float several large boats, and indeed steamboats after 1811, and slow-moving enough to provide good docks and parking places while craft were outfitting.
  Brownsville, at the mouth of Redstone Creek, was an important center for boat-building, including the manufacture of paddlewheel steamboats that traveled as far as New Orleans, and, later, the upper navigable part of the Missouri. Flatboat construction is documented at the site from 1782, and the Braddock Expedition established a supply base on the stream's south bank which the French destroyed after first taking Fort Necessity in 1754.
caption: Watershed of Redstone Creek (Monongahela River tributary) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
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