Frontier Forts

OLD FORTS IN WEST BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP

McFarland's Fort

Enoch's Fort (ca. 1770)

Milliken's Fort (ca. 1772)

Indian Fort at Zollarsville-behind Ulery's Mill (overlooking Ten Mile Creek). 

OTHER FORTS NEARBY IN WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA

Doddridge's Fort

Miller's Blockhouse

Rice's Fort

Wolff's Fort

Redstone Old Fort

Lindley's Fort

GREENE COUNTY FORTS NEARBY

Garards Fort-(ca.1774)

Jackson's Fort-(ca.1774)

NOTE-Corbly Massacre(1782)

In Remembrance of Corbly Family

Photo courtesy of Lisa Scherer. Redstone Old Fort in Brownsville, Pa. This tablet is on a stone wall below Nemacolin castle, on Main Street. 

REDSTONE OLD FORT

This tablet is erected by the Great Meadows Chapter Daughter of the American Revolution to mark the site of Redstone Old Fort Accredited to the Mound Buildings, it is also the site of Fort Burd, built by the British in 1759, under colonel James Burd. In 1786 Jacob Bowman established a Trading Post at the Old Fort. This point on the Monongahela River was the Western end of Chief Nemacolin's Trail.

 

Good  reads:

~The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania

~Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts Volume 2-2nd addition Thomas Montgomery