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Spark's Fort (Pennsylvania)

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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]

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  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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