Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne Click on picture for bigger view.

Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne, an Original Member of the Pennsylvania Society, built a fort here in 1794 for protection against Native Americans.

Brig. Gen. Wayne had a brilliant record in the Revolution, despite his loss to the British at Paoli. He led the successful midnight attack on Stony Point on the Hudson River, and he had distinguished parts in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth as well as in the Yorktown campaign.

He was Vice President of the Society from 1783 to 1785. He died at Presque Isle (now Erie), Pennsylvania, in 1796 and in 1810 his bones were removed to the graveyard of St. David's Church, near Wayne, Pa.