{"nrhp_refnum":"66000696","name":"Bushy Run Battlefield","other_names":["Bushy Run State Park"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"2 mi. E of Harrison City on PA 993","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrison City","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"PA","lat":40.35479642650006,"lon":-79.62333694713712,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 162-acre battlefield site within Bushy Run Battlefield State Park, located about 1.5 miles east of Harrison City in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Jeanette.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the 1763 Battle of Bushy Run was a decisive English victory in the most determined Indian attack on the colonial frontier during Pontiac's Conspiracy. Colonel Henry Bouquet's feigned retreat and flank attack relieved the besieged Fort Pitt and demonstrated his mastery of wilderness warfare, which helped pacify the Ohio frontier.","narrative":"The Bushy Run battlefield lies about 25 miles east of Fort Pitt, in the hills of what is now Westmoreland County, and is now part of a 162-acre state park. In August 1763, British forces under Colonel Henry Bouquet, marching from Carlisle with about 500 soldiers and a long train of supply wagons, were attacked by Native forces seeking to end the siege of Fort Pitt. After heavy fighting on August 5, Bouquet's men built a redoubt from flour bags on a hilltop. The following day the attackers launched several assaults on this makeshift fort. Bouquet then ordered a feigned retreat, and when the attackers rushed the camp, his troops turned and struck their flank, forcing them to flee. The battle lifted the siege of Fort Pitt. Bouquet's 1764 expedition into central Ohio followed, and the battlefield is valued for showing how the frontier was made safer for settlers.","period_of_significance":"August 5-6, 1763","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The battlefield is contained within a recreational state park, with the woodland setting altered slightly by landscaping, driveways, paths, and picnic facilities.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.411628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/66000696_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000696/bb4cc80d5d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000696/bb4cc80d5d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevin Myers at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bushy_Run_monument.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Myers at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bushy_Run_monument.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994219","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushy_Run_Battlefield","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5001618"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/westmoreland-county/bushy-run-battlefield-66000696/"}