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Pages in category "Forts in Pennsylvania" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
List of forts in Washington County, Pennsylvania; Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania) Fort Lyttleton (Pennsylvania) M. Fort Machault; Manada Gap, Pennsylvania; Isaac Meier ...
The fort was located in present-day Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. [2] The attack on Doddridge's Fort was recorded in historian's Samuel Kercheval 1883 history A History of the Valley of Virginia. [3] The fort was a frequent stop for Methodist circuit riders, including Francis Asbury.
A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh drawn by cartographer John Rocque in 1765. Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh).
Fort Franklin was a post-Revolutionary War fort built in 1787 on French Creek in what is now Venango County, Pennsylvania to protect local settlers from Native American raids during the Northwest Indian War. During the preceding years, settlers threatened by raids would have to seek shelter at Fort Pitt. Westward expansion of white settlements ...
Fort Franklin was a stockaded fort constructed at the order of Benjamin Franklin in 1756, in response to a series of raids by Native American war parties on Pennsylvania settlements in late 1755, in particular the Great Cove massacre and the Gnadenhütten massacre.
Pages in category "Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fort Henry was a stockade fort built in early 1756 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, to protect local settlers from Native American war parties, which were raiding the area frequently during the French and Indian War.