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Forty Fort Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house at River Street and Wyoming Avenue in the Old Forty Fort Cemetery in Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.It was built in 1806–08 in a New England meeting house style with white clapboard siding and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
In the years following the Revolutionary War, Forty Fort became home to both the Nathan Denison House (built around 1790) and the Forty Fort Meetinghouse (built in 1806–08), which is located in the borough's cemetery. Forty Fort was officially incorporated as a borough in 1887.
Forty Fort was a stronghold built by settlers from Connecticut, on the Susquehanna River in what is now Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Before the American Revolutionary War , both Connecticut and Pennsylvania claimed this territory, as Connecticut had laid claim to a wide swath of land to its west based on its colonial charter.
Nov. 15—FORTY FORT — During construction on Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's Abrahams Creek restoration project in Forty Fort on Thursday, WVSA contractor Rutledge Construction uncovered ...
The parade will begin at Kingston Corners and proceed to the Forty Fort Cemetery, where the annual program will be held honoring all fallen veterans of all wars. As always, a large crowd is ...
May 24—KINGSTON — The 105th annual West Side Veterans Memorial Day Parade will step off at 10:30 a.m. sharp on Memorial Day, May 27, honoring America's fallen heroes. Commander Gary Isaac from ...
House Denison House: Forty Fort: 1790 House Oldest house in Luzerne County: Headhouse at New Market: Philadelphia, Society Hill: 1804 Firehouse Oldest firehouse in the United States Dickson Tavern: Erie: 1815 Commercial Oldest building in Erie Academy Hall: Edinboro: 1857 School Oldest normal school building in Pennsylvania; on the Edinboro ...
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