Fort Delaware is a replica of the frontier lower fort of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, whose original site stood six miles upriver near Milanville, Pennsylvania, while another fort stood farther upriver in the settlement. It is dedicated to the Connecticut Yankees who settled the Delaware Valley. These first settlers, farmers of English descent mainly from eastern Connecticut, formed the Delaware Company and bought land from the Lenape, signing the first deed in 1754. The Lenape called this ten-mile strip along both sides of the Delaware River Cushetunk, a name said to mean either a place of red stone hills or low lands washed over by water. By 1760 the settlement had thirty cabins, a gristmill, and a sawmill, and each spring more settlers arrived to face a remote wilderness, severe winters, the possibility of Indian attacks, and uncertainty about whether farming would sustain them. In 1761 a stockade was built around three homes to protect the settlement. The settlers entered the area during the French and Indian War of 1755-1763, and conflicts between settlers and Native Americans eventually nearly eradicated the Native American presence in Pennsylvania. The only known attack on Fort Delaware came in April 1763, when a Lenape war party sought revenge for the murder of Chief Teddyescung, though that killing was probably carried out by Iroquois rivals or members of the Susquehanna. Ezra Witter, together with the women and children inside the fort, repelled the attack with a convincing show of force that killed one Lenape. Timbering reached the community in 1794 and brought steady cash that spurred Cushetunk's development. As the danger of Native American attack declined between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, residents left the fort and built what they called fair houses. Narrowsburg, in the town of Tusten, was established in 1853 when Tusten separated from Lumberland, and it was named for Lt. Col. Benjamin Tusten of Goshen, New York, one of the fallen at the Revolutionary War Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779. The region's history remained bound to the river, commerce, and transportation: the community began in the mid-1750's as Homan's Eddy, named for Benjamin Homan, later became Big Eddy for the broad quiet pool in the river there, and then grew into a favored stop for lumber rafts heading to Easton, Trenton, and Philadelphia, at times hosting a thousand raftsmen seeking meals and lodging. Later in the 1800's the railroad brought people from the New York City area escaping summer heat, and from the 1930's through the 1950's thousands of New York City Boy Scouts arrived by rail for the nearby Ten Mile River Scout Camps. In the present era Narrowsburg still has two railroad-dependent businesses, a feed mill and a lumberyard, while visitors now come by automobile for scenery and relief from city life. Its streetscape is anchored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and RiverFest and EagleFest draw thousands to Main Street. Narrowsburg is known as the Eagle Capital of New York State. Arts and entertainment have long been central to community life: the Tusten Theatre, built by the Narrowsburg Fire Department in 1925, helped pay expenses through silent films, dances, and small traveling shows in its Community Theater, became the Park Theater in the 1930's, and remained part of Tusten's entertainment into the late 1980's. In 1873, the building was purchased by the Town of Tusten and became the Town Hall.