{"nrhp_refnum":"92001501","name":"Lobb's Cemetery and Yohogania County Courthouse Site","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Calamity Hollow Rd. at Lobb's Run, Jefferson Borough","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Elizabeth","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.26306086300008,"lon":-79.91609251199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A cemetery of roughly two and a half acres on a wooded bluff above the Monongahela River near Lobb's Run and Calamity Hollow Road in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with the adjoining site of the Yohogania County Courthouse. The cemetery was in use from the late 18th into the late 20th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the site is significant for its association with the late 18th-century governmental and judicial center at Yohogania County, a Virginia-established county court, and with the Whiskey Rebellion. Federal troops camped nearby and were buried here, and several men tied to the Rebellion are interred in the cemetery. It is described as the only known burial ground of federal troops who died during that campaign.","narrative":"Lobb's Cemetery sits on a wooded bluff above the Monongahela River in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, next to the reputed site of the Yohogania County Courthouse. The cemetery was used from the late 18th century into the late 20th, and its roughly 50 remaining stones range from early native stone markers to 19th- and 20th-century marble and granite. The site matters chiefly for its link to the Whiskey Rebellion. Federal troops wintered at the mouth of Lobb's Run during the unrest, and a smallpox outbreak killed several of them. Two officers, Lieutenant Alexander Beall and Captain Thomas Walker, both died in January 1795 aged 20 and have marked graves. Other graves belong to Andrew McFarlane, a Mingo Creek Society participant, and Gabriel Peterson, a Revolutionary War veteran who kept a tavern during the Rebellion. The courthouse, one of three courts Virginia set up on Pennsylvania soil, reflects the long rivalry over which state governed the region.","period_of_significance":"1794-1832","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.274411-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92001501.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001501/4aae081b0e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001501/4aae081b0e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LobbsCemeteryandYohoganiaCountyCourthouseSite.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LobbsCemeteryandYohoganiaCountyCourthouseSite.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992244","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobb%27s_Cemetery_and_Yohogania_County_Courthouse_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6663578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/lobbs-cemetery-and-yohogania-county-courthouse-site-92001501/"}