Scenery Hill Historic District

Scenery Hill is a linear village of about 107 resources strung along the National Road, now U.S. Route 40, for roughly 3,300 feet in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The village grew after the road opened in 1818, when Hill Tavern, built around 1794, anchored a town laid out with 106 building lots by surveyor Jonathan Knight. Its taverns, shops and houses served travelers through the road's peak years. After the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Wheeling in 1853, the village became a commercial centre for surrounding farms and mining communities, and coal-era growth brought Queen Anne and Colonial Revival buildings, two churches, a 1904 bank and a 1911 Romanesque Revival school. Automobile touring brought a further revival in the 1910s and 1920s. The district contains vernacular Federal and Greek Revival buildings, a cast-iron milepost erected in 1835, and a cemetery with headstones from the 1820s onward.