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Colburn Park is located a short way south and east of the Mascoma River, whose generally east–west route is interrupted by a semicircular bend to the north, within which lies the center of Lebanon. The park's origin is in 1792, when the land was donated by Robert Colburn as the site of the community's meeting house (church and town hall).
The "fort" was a rectangle of six houses connected with lean-tos. The southern end of the fort consisted of a two-story structure with a Great Hall on the second floor and an attached guard tower. The only gate into the fortification lay below the Great Hall and was flanked by a small stable to the east and a guard house to the west.
When the fort was nearly complete in late January, 1756, Franklin sent Captain Charles Foulk to build a fort between Fort Allen and "Schuylkill Fort," (Fort Lebanon), which had been built the previous December. [9] Foulk chose a site near a region referred to by the local German colonists as "Allemangel," loosely translated as "lacking all ...
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Fort Lebanon (known after July 1757 as Fort William) was a Pennsylvania stockade fort built in December 1755 and designed to provide protection for settlers' families during the French and Indian War. However, Native American war parties often attacked nearby farms and killed settlers, disappearing before the fort's troops could respond.
The siege of Fort at Number Four (7–9 April 1747) was a frontier action at present-day Charlestown, New Hampshire, during King George's War.The Fort at Number 4 (named so because it was located in the fourth of a series of recently surveyed township land parcels), [a] was unsuccessfully besieged by a French and Native force under the command of Ensign Joseph Boucher de Niverville.
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