Fort Hunter Mansion and Park
5300 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17110, USA
Pennsylvania, USA
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EST. 1755
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EST. 1755
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Fort Hunter Mansion and Park.
The surviving nineteenth-century Fort Hunter mansion anchors a county park overlooking the Susquehanna River. Preserved buildings, furnished rooms, archaeological resources, gardens, trails, and recreational grounds occupy the earlier frontier-fort site, although no substantial above-ground remains of the original colonial fort survive.
About Fort Hunter Mansion and Park
Frontiersman known as the “Great Renegade” was born nearby. Captured by Indians, 1756, he lived among the Senecas and learned their language and culture. Following his release, he became an interpreter for the American army; deserted in 1778. Afterwards he led British and Native American war parties against frontier settlements. Hostile to the U.S. in War of 1812. Regarded as a loyalists by some and a “white savage” by others, he remains controversial. He died in Canada.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Fort Hunter Mansion and Park
It was a block-house surrounded by a stockade, and had additional barracks on the outside for the recruits on their way to Fort Augusta. It was generally under the command of Captain Thomas McKee and Captain James Patterson, of Lt. Colonel William Clapham's Augusta Regiment, being the only defense in this list not directly under Colonel Conrad Weiser's command. It occupied an important position and was used until the termination of all hostilities in 1764.
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