Killgore Fort House

Killgore Fort House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Kilgore Fort House is a historic site located in Scott County, Virginia at 190 West Jackson Street, Gate City, Virginia. Fort houses were built to provide protection for individual families during the period from 1773 to about 1795 when attacks by Native Americans on the pioneer settlers were common. The Kilgore Fort House was built about 1790 by the Reverend Robert Kilgore, and is the only surviving example of its type in southwest Virginia. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1785

Source: en.wikipedia.org