Along Fort Swatara Drive about 1.5 miles north of Lickdale, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Near Lickdale, Pennsylvania (Formerly known as Union Forge) in United States
1755 (Rebuilt by the Colonial Pennsylvania militia forces in 1756)
Built by
Colonial Pennsylvania militia forces
In use
1755-1758
Materials
Logs and roughly sawed wood boards.
Fate
Abandoned in 1758 – materials likely pillaged by local European settlers.
Events
Fort Swatara prevented marauding Indian raids from progressing to the more populated areas in what is now Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Garrison information
Past commanders
Captain Christian Busse Captain Frederick Smith (Schmitt) Lieutenant Phillip Martzloff Captain Lieutenant Samuel Weiser Captain Lieutenant Samuel Allen
Garrison
Pennsylvania militia, 30-50 men plus officers
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Designated
1999
Photograph of the Swatara Gap taken in 1895.
Fort Swatara (various spellings, sometimes referred to as Smith's Fort) was a stockaded blockhouse built during the French and Indian War in what is now Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Initially a farmstead surrounded by a stockade, provincial troops occupied it in January 1756. The fort safeguarded local farms, but a number of settlers were killed by small Native American war parties. The fort was abandoned in May 1758.[1]: 340
^Hunter, William Albert. Forts on the Pennsylvania Frontier: 1753–1758, (Classic Reprint). Fb&c Limited, 2018; pp 330-340
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