From 1786 to the early 1830s, over twenty enslaved people lived and worked at Fort Hunter after their parents and ancestors had been stolen from Africa. The McAllister family, who created all of Fort Hunter’s earliest surviving buildings, was one of the largest slave owners in Dauphin County. Along with free laborers, Blacks worked on the Fort Hunter plantation farming, cooking, and running the dairy, and at least two families there were the Craigs and the Jenkins. At that time Fort Hunter included a farm, a tavern, a distillery, and a mill. Sall Craig fled bondage at Fort Hunter in 1828 when she was about 60 after the McAllisters, who had owned her since she was a girl, planned to sell her because of financial reversals. A sales advertisement called her strong and active for her age and said she was an excellent washer, baker, and cook who understood the management of a dairy and soap boiling. By then small communities of free Blacks had formed in nearby Harrisburg and Halifax, and they may have provided aid and refuge to Sall, but nothing more is known of her story. Known enslaved people who once lived at Fort Hunter were Cato, Charles, Andrew Craig, Eliza Craig, Lucy Craig, Sall Craig, Daniel, George Hoofnagle, Hetty Gray, Isaac, Jack, son of Cato, James, Jem, Judy, Hallie Jenkins, Jack Jenkins, Maria Murry, Mary, Nance, Ned, and Tyra. In 2014, ground penetrating radar identified a total of nine graves, four of them unmarked, at the African American cemetery that was once part of the Fort Hunter property.