Spark's Fort (Pennsylvania)
Spark's Fort was a pioneer blockhouse in Pennsylvania, erected on the southern side of the Youghiogheny River, near Burn's Ford as early as 1774.[1] It was first used as a polling place on July 8, 1776.[2]
References[]
- ^ Sipe, Chester Hale (1932). Fort Ligonier and its times: a history of the first English fort west of the Allegheny Mountains... (PDF). The Telegraph Press. p. 300.
- ^ Van Voorhis, John Stogdell (1893). The Old and New Monongahela. Nicholson, printer. p. 299.
Spark's Fort.
Categories:
- Forts in Pennsylvania
- Colonial forts in Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- Demolished buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
- Polling places
- 1770s establishments in Pennsylvania
- Fayette County, Pennsylvania geography stubs