Fort Shirley

Built 1755-56 by George Croghan. First a stockade and then a major link in the frontier fort chain west of the Susquehanna. Base for the Armstrong expedition, 1756. Site on opposite knoll.

Marker is on Croghan Pike, on the right when ...

Fort Shirley

One of the chain of frontier defenses

of the Province of Pennsylvania

in the French and Indian Wars

stood on this knoll,

built 1756

by

its Commander

the noted Indian trader and agent

George Croghan

here in 1753

at the ...