Early Bible

Somerset County · dedicated 1954 · 151 W Main St.

In a log cabin located on this site, Charles Frederick Goeb printed a Bible in 1813. It was the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny Mountains.

under a mile from where Margaret Saylor lived in the 1710s

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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