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A third Pennsylvania State Historical Marker for Fort Allen was placed in 1947 in Weissport's Lehigh Canal Park (located at the intersection of Bridge Street and D&L Trail). It reads, "Built in 1756 by the Province of Pennsylvania. One of a series of frontier defenses erected during the French and Indian War. The site was within present Weissport."
Fort Allen Plaque," in "Pennsylvania Historical Markers." Waymarking.com, retrieved online September 7, 2019. Grave of Col. Christopher Truby (online memorial with text and images). Salt Lake City, Utah: Find a Grave, retrieved online September 7, 2019.
This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Carbon County. ... Fort Allen Well: May 25, 1971: Weisport Borough Park opposite 112-116 Franklin St ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
[8]: 350 A historical marker was erected in 2005 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, in downtown Lehighton, Pennsylvania. [22] A stone monument with a brass plaque marks the location of Fort Allen at Weissport, Pennsylvania.
The fort was still in use as of 28 February 1758, with a reduced garrison, when Major James Burd visited, writing that he "Arrived at Lieu't Ingle's at 4 P.M., ordered a Review Immediately, & found here Lieu't Ingle and 30 good men in a very good Stockade, which he is just finishing, 15 miles from Fort Allen." Burd noted that Engels was ...
A historical marker was erected in 1955 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, in Andreas, Pennsylvania, on Pennsylvania Route 309 (West Penn Pike). [ 14 ] As of 1862, the fort's well was still in use.
This is intended to be a complete list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Philadelphia County, as placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). As of 2021, there were 321 combined Roadside (larger) and City (narrower) markers affixed on posts and Plaque markers affixed to buildings or structures in ...