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Fort Hunter Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
79002216

Area
  
13 ha

Added to NRHP
  
17 August 1979

Designated PHMC
  
July 03, 1947

Year built
  
1760

Fort Hunter Historic District

Location
  
U.S. 22, Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Other, Georgian, High Victorian

Fort Hunter Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Hunter, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The district includes six contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and one contributing structure. The area has seen continuous settlement since the early 1700s and once was the site of an early supply fort and garrison. Also in the district are the remains of a section of the Pennsylvania Canal. Notable buildings include the separately listed Archibald McAllister House, a spring house, Everhart Covered Bridge, large frame barn (1876), corn crib, farm house, blacksmith shop, stone stable barn, Hunter's House or Old Hotel, ice house, and archaeological sites for Fort Hunter, the garrison, Hunter's Mill, and the Pennsylvania Canal.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Fort Hunter Historic District Wikipedia


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