Fort Allen

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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."Fort Allen (1947HM00086)" and "Fort Allen Well," in "Pennsylvania Historical Marker Search." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, retrieved online August 20, 2023. The finished fort was 125 feet long and 50 feet wide, with two triangular bastions, a 12-foot high palisade, and a surrounding trench. Inside there was a well, a barracks for the garrison, a storeroom and a gunpowder magazine. Two swivel guns were mounted at opposite corners. The garrison was rarely more than fifty men, and the fort never saw combat, however it became a center of contact and trade with Native Americans and served as a stopping point for Indians traveling to and from Bethlehem, Easton and Philadelphia. It was abandoned in 1761 near the end of the French and Indian War,Daniel Ingram, "Anxious Hospitality: Indian “Loitering” at Fort Allen, 1756–1761," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXXXIII, No. 3, July 2009 and briefly reoccupied during Pontiac's War and again during the American Revolutionary War. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military structure
date from: 1756

Source: en.wikipedia.org