Woodville (Neville House)
If you are ever in the Pittsburgh area and enjoy history, I highly recommend making a stop at Woodville. It’s like taking a step back in time.
I was very lucky to be given a tour by Susan W. H. Smith, Woodville’s Site Director and tour guide extraordinaire. The property has an amazing history and the home is representative of daily life in the late 1700s - early 1800s. While you are there, don’t forget to say hi to the chickens!
Begun in 1775 and completed in 1785 by General John Neville, an American military officer, land speculator, and tax collector, Woodville (the John & Presley Neville House) is among Southwestern Pennsylvania’s oldest surviving homes and the site of a pivotal skirmish in the infamous Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
