Fort Allen - Plaque
N 40° 16.743 W 079° 35.498
17T E 619728 N 4459681
Quick Description: State Historical Plaque placed on a stone monument at The St John’s Harrold Reformed United Church of Christ in Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania commemorating the frontier fort known as Fort Allen.
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 8/22/2006 6:41:06 PM
Waymark Code: WMN31
Views: 105
Long Description:MARKER TEXT: Built and commanded by Col. Christopher Truby, officer
of the revolution, was located 150 yards to the south of this
marker. A frontier Fort of Dunmore's War 1774, the Indian War, and
the War of the Revolution, It was also known as Truby's Blockhouse.
(Additional text not noted in the PHMC website) From here a
petition to Governor John Penn sent by eighty inhabitants of
Westmoreland County headed by Wendel Oury asked for aid in the
threatened Indian uprising of 1774.
This plaque is mounted in a stone monument on the grounds of the
St John’s Harrold Reformed United Church of Christ located at the
corner of St John Church Road and Baltzer Meyer Pike in Hempfield
Township, Pennsylvania. There is also a roadside State Historical
Marker at Baltzer Meyer Pike and Pennsylvania Route 136 about three
tenths of mile north of the church. (coordinates N40º 17.009’ W79º
35.544’)
Estimating 150 yards to the south, we figure that the fort must
have been in the present day Harrold Middle School ball field on
the hill above the church. See photos. We could not find very much
information on the web about Fort Allen, but there is a small
article from Pittsburgh Tribune Review about the fort in the
website below. If you do a web search for more information be aware
of the fact that there is a Fort Allen army installation in Puerto
Rico, and there was another historic Fort Allen in eastern
Pennsylvania near Bethlehem.
Related Waymark: Fort Allen (Sign) WMN3B:
(visit link)
