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Visible here are remains of stone fireplace hearths and a portion of the original footer for the south wall of the fort. Artifacts found here included USA buttons and artillery projectiles, suggesting this may have been officers' quarters and barr…
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Much forged iron was found near this site, suggesting it was the location of the blacksmith or armorer's shop. The top edge of the slope, now greatly eroded, was much wider in 1778, and would have accommodated the shop and barracks, as well as the…
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[Left Side of Text]: First Home of the U.S. Army
After the American Revolution was won, Congress authorized formation of a small regular army for general defense. This unit, formed under Col. Josiah Harmar, was named the first American regiment…
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Many famous names were associated with Fort McIntosh, including commanders Lachlan McIntosh, Danial Brodhead and Josiah Harmar, treaty commissioners George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler and Arthur Lee, geographer Thomas Hutchins, and presidential a…
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Fort McIntosh, 1778-1788, built by General Lachlan McIntosh's continentals of the 8th Pennsylvania and 13th Virginia, veterans of Saratoga, Brandywine, Germantown, and Valley Forge, and Virginia Militia, was the first fort built north of the Ohio …
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Col. John Gibson - 1778Brig. Gen. Lachlan McIntosh - 1778Lt. Col. Richard Campbell - 1778Col. Daniel Brodhead - 1778-1779Capt. John Clark - 1779 & 1781Capt. Samuel Dawson - 1779Capt. Robert Beal - 1779Capt. Simon Morgan - 1779Major Richard Taylor …
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1778 — · — 1916This Marks the Site ofFort McIntoshFirst United States Military FortOn the north side of the Ohio River——————————Erected byThe Fort McIntosh ChapterDaugh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU28_general-lachlan-mcintosh_Beaver-PA.html
General Lachlan McIntoshFirst Commander, Fort McIntoshPresident,Society of the Cincinnati inThe State of Georgia, 1783-1789Erected by the Society1978
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU25_fort-mcintosh-site_Beaver-PA.html
This marks the western boundary of Fort McIntosh, erected here in 1778 in defense of the western frontier.· · · · · Following the Revolutionary War, a treaty with theNative Americans was drawn at Fort McIntosh in…
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In honor of Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh; born 1727 in Scotland, died 1806. Appointed Western Department Commander of the Continental Army by General Washington May 1778. Erected Fort McIntosh in the fall of 1778, serving as its first comman…