Braddock's Road, now the National Road, crosses the mountains, passing through Uniontown and Red Stone Old Fort (Brownsville), on its course to Pittsburgh.

The county seat of Fayette is the borough of Union or Uniontown.

Gallatin's log cabin, the beginning of New Geneva, was on the right bank of the Monongahela, about twelve miles to the westward of the county seat.

Opposite, on the other side of the river, in Washington County, was Greensburg, where his friend Badollet was later established.
Again for a long period Gallatin left his family without any word whatever.

His most indulgent friend, Mademoiselle Pictet, could hardly excuse his silence, and did not hesitate to charge that it was due to misfortunes which his pride prompted him to conceal.