Ligonier, Pennsylvania
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Ligonier is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,513 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
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Image of Fort Ligonier
Former train station, now school district offices
Fort Ligonier
Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier,, styled Sir John Ligonier from 1743 to 1757, was a British army officer and politician who served in the English and British armies for more than half a
Ligonier, Pennsylvania
…6,000 people, that temporarily made Ligonier the second-most populated spot in Pennsylvania, second only to Philadelphia. Fort Ligonier was named after John Ligonier, a British noble of French origin who held the rank of Field Marshal in the British Army. Eventually, the name of the settlement that grew up around…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1755
Equestrian portrait of Lord Ligonier by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760
Monument to Ligonier by John Francis Moore at Westminster Abbey