About: Fort Swatara

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In 1755, during the French and Indian War, marauding Indians allied with the French attacked European settlers along the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania. Several of these attacks occurred near the Swatara Gap area. Peter Hedrick and other Swatara Gap area settlers fortified Hedrick's farmstead by building a log-walled stockade around the structure. This was the beginning of Fort Swatara.On January 25, 1756, Captain Frederick Smith and a company of 50 militiamen received orders from Robert Hunter Morris, deputy governor of Colonial Pennsylvania, to take posts at Swatara Gap. Capt. Smith's orders were to occupy the existing fortification at Hedrick's farmstead and reinforce it if necessary. Smith's troops erected a military-style log blockhouse and magazine shed for ammunition storage and sur

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dbo:abstract	In 1755, during the French and Indian War, marauding Indians allied with the French attacked European settlers along the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania. Several of these attacks occurred near the Swatara Gap area. Peter Hedrick and other Swatara Gap area settlers fortified Hedrick's farmstead by building a log-walled stockade around the structure. This was the beginning of Fort Swatara.On January 25, 1756, Captain Frederick Smith and a company of 50 militiamen received orders from Robert Hunter Morris, deputy governor of Colonial Pennsylvania, to take posts at Swatara Gap. Capt. Smith's orders were to occupy the existing fortification at Hedrick's farmstead and reinforce it if necessary. Smith's troops erected a military-style log blockhouse and magazine shed for ammunition storage and surrounded the structures with a sturdy log stockade. (en)
dbo:buildingEndDate	1755 (Rebuilt by the Colonial Pennsylvania militia forces in 1756)
dbo:location	dbr:Lebanon_County,_Pennsylvania dbr:Fort_Swatara__location__1
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dbp:builder	Colonial Pennsylvania militia forces (en)
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dbp:condition	Completely destroyed. (en)
dbp:country	United States (en)
dbp:events	Fort Swatara prevented marauding Indian raids from progressing to the more populated areas in what is now Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. (en)
dbp:fate	Abandoned in 1758 – materials likely pillaged by local European settlers. (en)
dbp:garrison	Colonial Pennsylvania militia forces. (en)
dbp:location	Along Fort Swatara Drive about one-and-a-half miles north of Lickdale, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. (en)
dbp:materials	Logs and roughly sawed wood boards. (en)
dbp:name	Fort Swatara (en)
dbp:nativeName	Also known as Smith’s Fort. (en)
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dbp:pastCommanders	Captain Frederick Smith, Captain Christian Bussey, Lieutenant Phillip Martzloff, Samuel Weiser and Lieutenant Samuel Allen. (en)
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rdfs:comment	In 1755, during the French and Indian War, marauding Indians allied with the French attacked European settlers along the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania. Several of these attacks occurred near the Swatara Gap area. Peter Hedrick and other Swatara Gap area settlers fortified Hedrick's farmstead by building a log-walled stockade around the structure. This was the beginning of Fort Swatara.On January 25, 1756, Captain Frederick Smith and a company of 50 militiamen received orders from Robert Hunter Morris, deputy governor of Colonial Pennsylvania, to take posts at Swatara Gap. Capt. Smith's orders were to occupy the existing fortification at Hedrick's farmstead and reinforce it if necessary. Smith's troops erected a military-style log blockhouse and magazine shed for ammunition storage and sur (en)
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foaf:name	Also known as Smith’s Fort. (en) Fort Swatara (en)
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