Hannastown Community Honor Roll - Hannastown, Pennsylvania
N 40° 21.180 W 079° 29.788
17T E 627679 N 4468022
This memorial is located on Front Street in the Village of Hannastown in Hempfield Towmship, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMX45B
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2017
Views: 1
According to Wikipedia, (
visit link) "Hannastown is an unincorporated community and important historical and archaeological site located in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Although the village is not tracked by the Census Bureau, it has been assigned the ZIP code 15635.
The village was founded in 1773 as the seat of the newly created Westmoreland County, and was known at the time as "Hanna's Town". It was located along Forbes Road, the main route into the Ohio Country from eastern Pennsylvania, and named for Robert Hanna, an early settler whose tavern also served as Westmoreland County's first courthouse. Hannastown was settled primarily by Irish and Scotch-Irish, though the surrounding area was mostly Pennsylvania Dutch.
On July 13, 1782, in one of the final actions of the American Revolutionary War, the settlement was destroyed by a force of The King's 8th Regiment out of Fort Niagara "The King's, or 8th Regiment - Detroit Garrison" and British-allied American Indians led by Guyasuta. The county government was moved to Newtown, which later became known as Greensburg. The village was rebuilt, but after Forbes Road was rerouted through Greensburg, the settlement grew little, and eventually most of it became farmland."
There are two tablets at this memorial, one for World Wars I and II and the other for the Korean and Vietnam Conflcts. They are essentially the same as they list the veterans from the Hannstown Community in each.
Visit Instructions:Please submit a photo(s) taken by you of your visit to the location (non-copyrighted photos only). GPS photos are also accepted with the location in the background, and old vacation photos are accepted. If you are not able to provide a photo, then please describe your visit or give a story about the visit.
If you have additional information about the memorial which is not listed in the waymark description, please notify the waymark owner to have it added, and please post the information in your visit log.