Settler's Cabin Park

Settler's Cabin Park

Settler's Cabin Park is a convert|1589|acre|km2|0|sing=on county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's 12,000 acre (49 km²) network of nine distinct parks.

It is sited convert|15|mi|km|0 west of downtown Pittsburgh in Collier, North Fayette, and Robinson Townships. Archaeologists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History helped identify the 1780 log cabin that gives the park its name. The themes of the 11 picnic groves are Indian names: Algonquin, Seneca, Apache, Tomahawk, etc.

External links

* [http://www.county.allegheny.pa.us/parks/scfac.aspx Settler's Cabin Park website]

References

*cite book | author=Smith, Helene and George Swetnam | title=A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1991 | id=0-8229-5424-9


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