THOMPSON'S FORT
"The blockhouse on the John Thompson (now David K. Thompson) farm in Rayne township, Indiana county, (about six miles northeast of Indiana borough) was erected in 1790, and torn away in 1807. The names as far as known, of those engaged in its construction were, Jacob Hess, Henry and Jacob Shallenberger, Ezekiel and Elisha Chambers, James McKee, John Stuchell, Timothy O'Neil, Shoenberger, and a few others. The building was originally about eighty feet long, thirty feet wide, and two stories in height, and small round logs were used in its construction. It had two ranges of port-holes; the brush and lumber were cut off, and it was surrounded by a stockade made of sharpened poles driven in the ground, and about ten feet in height. The building was nearly a ruin when John Thompson came to it in 1801. He removed the stockade, and used a part of the house to repair the remaining portion. We cannot learn that this blockhouse was ever attacked." From notes furnished by Joseph Thompson, a descendant of John Thompson. (Hist. Indiana Co., p. 524)" ------------------------ The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania, vol. 2, Sec. Ed., pp. 622-3; Edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LITT. D.; Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer, Harrisburg, PA, 1916.

THOMPSON'S FORT

"The blockhouse on the John Thompson (now David K. Thompson) farm in Rayne township, Indiana county, (about six miles northeast of Indiana borough) was erected in 1790, and torn away in 1807. The names as far as known, of those engaged in its construction were, Jacob Hess, Henry and Jacob Shallenberger, Ezekiel and Elisha Chambers, James McKee, John Stuchell, Timothy O'Neil, Shoenberger, and a few others. The building was originally about eighty feet long, thirty feet wide, and two stories in height, and small round logs were used in its construction. It had two ranges of port-holes; the brush and lumber were cut off, and it was surrounded by a stockade made of sharpened poles driven in the ground, and about ten feet in height. The building was nearly a ruin when John Thompson came to it in 1801. He removed the stockade, and used a part of the house to repair the remaining portion. We cannot learn that this blockhouse was ever attacked." From notes furnished by Joseph Thompson, a descendant of John Thompson. (Hist. Indiana Co., p. 524)"
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The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania, vol. 2, Sec. Ed., pp. 622-3; Edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LITT. D.; Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer, Harrisburg, PA, 1916.

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