Spark's Fort (Pennsylvania)

Last updated August 01, 2025

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

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

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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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