Editing Hopwood, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The [[Battle of Jumonville Glen]], a skirmish which helped to start the [[French and Indian War]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Fort Necessity National Battlefield - Jumonville Glen|url=https://www.nps.gov/fone/jumglen.htm|website=nps.gov|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=July 25, 2016|quote='The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.' Horace Walpole}}</ref> was fought near Hopwood<ref>{{cite web|title=Jumonville Glen Historical Site|url=http://www.swpenna.com/city/pittsburgh-pa/item/jumonville-glen-historical-site/|website=swpenna.com|publisher=sw.Penna|access-date=July 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919222258/http://www.swpenna.com/city/pittsburgh-pa/item/jumonville-glen-historical-site/|archive-date=September 19, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> on May 28, 1754.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jumonville Glen - A Unit of Fort Necessity National Battlefield|url=http://www.visitpa.com/pa-hallowed-grounds/jumonville-glen-unit-fort-necessity-national-battlefield|website=visitpa.com|publisher=[Official Tourism Site of the] State of Pennsylvania|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref>

Hopwood was home to the famous [[Uniontown Speedway]] from 1916<ref name=Heritage>{{cite web|last1=Tyson|first1=Rae|title=A Century of Motorsports: "Gentlemen, start your engines!"|url=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/century-motorsports.html|website=Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine (Volume XXXIX, Number 1 - Winter 2013)|publisher=Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum commission|access-date=July 25, 2016|date=2013}}</ref> through the mid-1920s. The Universal Trophy and Autumn Classic, [[1921 AAA Championship Car season]] national championship points races, were held there in 1921<ref>{{cite news |title=Fetterman Scores In Uniontown Race. Averages 99.8 Miles an Hour. Capture 225-Mile Auto Classic on Speedway. Murphy Finishes Second. Is Less Than Two Minutes Behind the Winner, With Sarles Third and Miller Fourth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/09/06/archives/fetterman-scores-in-uniontown-race-averages-998-miles-an-hour.html |quote=I. P. Fetterman of Pittsburgh today won the Autumn classic at the Automobile Speedway ... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 6, 1921 |access-date=2012-10-03 }}</ref> and 1922.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leonelli|first1=Victoria|title=Around Uniontown|date=2003|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|page=122|isbn=9781439611890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeCGDroxfvgC&pg=PT167|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Motor Age: (1921:Jan.-June), Volume 39|date=April 2016|publisher=Class Journal Company, 1921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMlMAQAAMAAJ&q=autumn+classic+uniontown+speedway&pg=RA8-PA52|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> Before the sport was banned, In 1914 and 1915, hill-climb races were held up the nearby Summit Mountain.<ref name=Heritage/><ref name=McGuiness>{{cite web|last1=McGuinness|first1=Marci Lynn|title=Hopwood has fascinating history|url=http://www.heraldstandard.com/columns/local/marci_mcguinness/hopwood-has-fascinating-history/article_9249f460-0450-5336-9dd1-95c4c515a6fd.html|publisher=[[The Herald-Standard]]|access-date=July 25, 2016|date=May 6, 2012}}</ref>

[[File:Morris Hair Tavern Hopwood PA.JPG|thumb|left|Morris Hair Tavern]]
Hopwood has the most early-American 19th century stone buildings along the National Pike/Old U.S. Route 40, with a number of them being on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Pennsylvania|National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Raitz|first1=Karl B.|last2=Thompson|first2=George F.|title=A Guide to the National Road|date=1996|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801851568|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1S81ywhCEEC&pg=PA95|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> In 1816 President Monroe was a guest at the [[Hopwood-Miller Tavern]], then known as the Moses Hopwood House.<ref name=McGuiness/> Other Presidents and notables stayed there when the building was operated as an inn including [[John Quincy Adams]], [[William Henry Harrison]], [[James Polk]] and [[James Buchanan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hopwood-Miller Tavern|url=http://www.dot7.state.pa.us/CRGIS_Attachments/SiteResource/H096953_01H.pdf|access-date=July 25, 2016|location=Section 8, Page 5|date=1995}}</ref> Other important buildings include the Barnes Estate, the [[Summit Hotel|Summit Inn]], and the former Soldiers Orphan's School, a post-Civil War [[orphan school]] which is the current property of the [[Jumonville (Pennsylvania)|Jumonville Camp & Retreat Center]].
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