Patton's Fort
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Gosffo
N 40° 20.202 W 076° 49.233
18T E 345360 N 4466719
Home of the Paxton Rangers.
Waymark Code: WM5ZR
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2006
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Patton's Fort was a woodend blockhouse on a stone foundation used for the protection against Indian raids. The Paxton Rangers where housed here during the French and Indian War!
Nearby stood Patton's Fort, a station of the Paxton Rangers, who defended the gaps and farmsteads along the Blue Mountains from the Susquehanna River to Swatara Creek near Indiantown against Indian raids in 1756 to 1763.
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Marker Name: Patton's Fort
County: Dauphin
Date Dedicated: 12/22/1947
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 39, 1.4 mile West of Linglestown, at Patton Road
Category: French and Indian War, Military, native American
Website: Not listed
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