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
  1. 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.
  2. Van Voorhis, John Stogdell (1893). The Old and New Monongahela. Nicholson, printer. p. 299. Spark's Fort.


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