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In response, Colonel Christopher Truby (in one source, spelled "Trubee") of Pennsylvania's colonial militia erected Fort Allen in Hempstead Township, Westmoreland County in 1774. [5] It is believed that this fort was named for Andrew Allen of the state's then governing body, the Supreme Executive Council. Following its construction, Truby ...
Fort Allen was a military structure built in Franklin Township (in what is now Weissport), in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in 1756. It was first of several frontier defenses erected by Benjamin Franklin for the Province of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War. [1]
Fort Allen (Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania), an American Revolution-era fort outside of Pittsburgh; Fort Allen, an American Civil War fort involved in the Battle of New Haven in Nelson County, Kentucky; Fort Allen (Maine), a former fort in Munjoy Hill, Portland; Fort Allen (Puerto Rico), an active Puerto Rico National Guard military base ...
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.
Fort Hamilton in Stroudsburg and Fort Depuy near Smithfield Township were built in December and Fort Norris, Fort Allen and Fort Franklin were built in early 1756. [9] Settlers also built and manned several secondary posts, blockhouses and fortified homesteads in the area.
Fort Allen (Carbon County, Pennsylvania), abandoned; Fort Allen ... Fort Nisqually, rebuilt as a living history museum; Fort Okanogan; Fort Simcoe, open to the public;
COLCHESTER - Evernorth and the Champlain Housing Trust have combined forces to convert three large, brick historic buildings at Fort Ethan Allen into 65 apartments that will be known as the 10th ...
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