page_title: Westmoreland Heritage Trail
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Westmoreland Heritage Trail / Points of Interest / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: The (approximate) site where the Haymaker brothers struck natural gas in Murrysville, PA on November 3, 1878
context_page_description: The Westmoreland Heritage Trail is a partially completed rail trail in southwestern Pennsylvania. As of 2019, 18.0 miles of the 21.9 planned miles of trail are complete, including an 8.7 mile section from Saltsburg to the fringe of Delmont as well as a 9.3 mile section from Trafford to Export.
context_section_description: The path of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail runs by several prominent landmarks associated with the old railroad and the industries that grew around it.  The corridor of the eastern half of the trail is dotted with mine ruins and piles of slate left over from the coal industry; one of the most prominent of which is adjacent to the trail in Slickville, where the town's name is spelled out atop it.  In the borough of Export sits a newly restored 1939 railroad caboose.  A model derrick as well as a plaque and display stand by the trail in Murrysville, honoring the gas well tapped by the Haymaker brothers in 1878, though the exact location of that well is not known precisely.  Finally, the ruins of a railroad bridge and the turn of the century brickyard once serviced by it lie across the creek from the trail in Monroeville near TCKR milepost number 2 in Trafford.
caption: The (approximate) site where the Haymaker brothers struck natural gas in Murrysville, PA on November 3, 1878
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