D3lita@aol.com wrote: An old > history of Columbiana Co, described them as coming from "Redstone, > Pennsylvania". An old gazette shows two Redstones, one in Fayette Co and one > in Beaver Co. I cannot find any current map listing in Beaver co. Does > anyone know if there was a Redstone in this county? Where was it? > > Deborah > Ann Arbor, MI > In Bausman's 1904 book "History of Beaver County, PA" Vol. 1 pages 439 and 444. This is the section about the Religious History - Presbyterianism. On page 439 it talks about the "Presbytery of Redstone, the first Presbytery organized west of the Alleghenies and became the mother of all the rest of them were afterwards erected in this region"....."it reached from the summit of the Allegheny Mountains to the then farthest western border of civilization" On page 444, "Their field of labor being the same as that of the early Presbyterians, -----viz., in the "Redstone Settlement," the first Methodist "circuit" topok its name from that settlement as did the first presbytery. and was called the "Redstone Circuit"" In a note at the bottom of the page " The expression "Redstone Settlement" then and for many years afterwards, was employed to denote most of the country, whether claimed by PA or VA which lay west of the mountains. It derived its origin from the name of a creek which enters the Monongahela below Brownsville. This place was long known by the name of "Redstone Old Fort."---See Old Redstone, page 311, note." I do not have any information on the source Old Redstone referred to. Many other on the list would have knowledge of this source. Phil Holm