National Road mile marker Wheeling to Uniontown

On the Margins

From the 1820s to 1850 western Pennsylvania's Episcopalians struggled to gain the attention of easterners in the diocese.  While the diocese began providing yearly visits by a bishop after 1825,  much of the diocese's missionary funds went to projects outside the state or missions in the east.  Nonetheless, in the 1830s and 1840s, a number of western parishes sprang up in towns along major transportation routes.