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Fort Allen, also known as Truby's Blockhouse, was built and commanded by Colonel Christopher Truby, an officer of the Revolution. It stood 150 yards south of this site and served as a frontier fort during Dunmore's War in 1774, the Indian War, and the War of the Revolution. From here, a petition sent to Governor John Penn by eighty inhabitants of Westmoreland County, headed by Wendel Oury, asked for aid in the threatened Indian uprising of 1774.
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