Lobb's Cemetery and Yohogania County Courthouse Site
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Lobb's Cemetery, aka Lobb's Run Cemetery, is a historic cemetery in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
. It takes its name from Lobb's Run, a minor tributary of the Monongahela River
, which flows by the entrance to the cemetery.
The former Yohogania County
Courthouse was once located close to this cemetery, and some of the rebels involved in the Whiskey Rebellion
were buried in this cemetery around 1794.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1992.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,223,348; making it the second most populous county in Pennsylvania, following Philadelphia County. The county seat is Pittsburgh...
. It takes its name from Lobb's Run, a minor tributary of the Monongahela River
Monongahela River
The Monongahela River is a river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States...
, which flows by the entrance to the cemetery.
The former Yohogania County
Yohogania County
Yohogania County was created by the new state of Virginia in 1776, in an area long disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania. The county ceased to exist after the border dispute between the two states was resolved in the 1780s...
Courthouse was once located close to this cemetery, and some of the rebels involved in the Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented...
were buried in this cemetery around 1794.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1992.
External links
- Lobb's Run Cemetery at Find A GraveFind A GraveFind a Grave is a commercial website providing free access and input to an online database of cemetery records. It was founded in 1998 as a DBA and incorporated in 2000.-History:...