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Fort Walthour

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
· Erected about 1774 near this place
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Fort Walthour was a stockade enclosing a blockhouse and several buildings, built by the pioneers of the Brush Creek community on the plantation of Christopher Walthour. For more than a decade, it served as the chief place of refuge and defense for the early settlers against frequent Indian raids in this section and throughout western Pennsylvania.
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