Editing Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

===Road===
{{further|Lincoln Highway|Route of the Lincoln Highway}}
Wilkinsburg is located along historic roadways. For example, since 1913 Wilkinsburg is one of the locations transversed by the Lincoln Highway.<ref>[https://wilkinsburghistory.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/wilkinsburg-historical-society-february-2023-newsletter/ ''Wilkinsburg Historical Society Newsletter'' February 2023. Accessed 16 May 2023.]</ref> The historic Lincoln Highway runs from [[Times Square]] in New York City to [[Lincoln Park (San Francisco)|Lincoln Park]] in San Francisco. The Lincoln Highway legacy includes Penn Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard in Wilkinsburg: these are State Route 8 and Federal Route 30.<ref>[https://lincolnhighwayassoc.org/map/ Map provided by the Lincoln Highway Association. Accessed 16 May 2023. Zooming in may be required to see the details.]</ref> Penn Avenue was even earlier along the main trajectory of the [[Forbes Road]], which was used by British officer [[John Forbes (British Army officer)|John Forbes]] to lead a military expedition to attack the French position at [[Fort Duquesne]] (later [[Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)|Fort Pitt]]), in 1758, as part of the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756–1763). Previously British officer [[Edward Braddock]] had built a road with the same general trajectory, known as [[Braddock Road (Braddock expedition)|Braddock's Road]] (beneath which he was later buried), which lead to the French fortifications at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.