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| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - August 12 2011 : 07:30:00 AM
I saw this on one of the message boards. Anybody know where this location is?
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Bill Black will present, Looking for Fort Machault at the Friday evening August 19th meeting of the North Fork Chapter 29 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. The program begins at 7:00 pm at the Jefferson County History Center and is free and open to the Public.
Between 1753 and 1759m France maintained four forts in Western Pennsylvania to control the Upper Valley fur trade and restrict British colonial expansion. Constructed in 1754, Fort Machault was located near the French Creek and Allegheny River confluence but its exact location had become lost during residential growth. This presentation covers the 2010 excavation which identified part of the Fort including the storehouse containing 18th century trade items such as beads, gunflints, lead shot and bottle glass along with fired materials that confirm reports of destruction by fire in July 1759.
The Jefferson County History Center is located at 172-176 Main Street in Brookville. The Chapter meetings will be held on the 2nd floor education room of the Jefferson County History Center. Parking is available at the rear of the building. Please use the metal ramp at the rear entrance directly to the second floor. For further information contact Ken Burkett at (814) 849-0077 or email kburkett-jchc@windstream.net.
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| Seamus |
Posted - August 12 2011 : 09:52:29 AM
I do, Fitz. It is in my old home stomping grounds....It is NW PA, right off the Brookville exit of I-80. The fort location was in what is now the town of Franklin, PA. It was one of the chain of French forts from Duquesne to Presque Isle on Lake Erie. The others were Venango and Le Beouf. All were destroyed by the French on their retreat to Canada after being chased out of Duquesne by Forbes in 1759, rebuilt and better fortified by the British, under the direction and supervision of Col. Jamed Burd, CO of The Augusta Regiment..(that's us!)
In 1763, as Pontiac was attempting to make good on his promise to burn every British fort from Detroit to Fort Augusta (That's us, again!), Burd returned to Augusta to fortify and strengthen it in preparation for the promised attack, the old French Forts along the upper Allegheny River were, indeed, burnt, and with some severe loss of British and civilian life, some quite hideously.
While Fort Pitt was under siege, Bushy Run happened, with the defeat of Pontiac's forces (while he was languishing in his village just upriver from Detroit,)and his Confederacy fell apart.
I wish I could get out to hear this program. I believe the man mentioned, Ken Burkett, is a high school basketball and baseball teammate of mine.
Thanks for rthe heads-up! |
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