Big Crab Orchard Or Witten’s Fort
On the hillside to the south stood Big Crab Orchard Fort, also known as Witten’s Fort. Thomas Witten obtained land here in 1771 and built the fort as a neighborhood place of refuge. It was garrisoned in Dunmore’s War, 1774.
Marker is at the intersection of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19) and Frog Level Road (Business U.S. 19), on the left when traveling west on Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Courtesy hmdb.org
