Fort Venango

Fort Venango
Near Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States
Fort Venango Former location of the Fort Venango in Pennsylvania
Coordinates	41°23′22″N 79°49′20″W / 41.38932°N 79.82217°W / 41.38932; -79.82217Coordinates: 41°23′22″N 79°49′20″W / 41.38932°N 79.82217°W / 41.38932; -79.82217
Type	Fort
Site information
Controlled by	United Kingdom
Site history
Built	1760
In use	1760-1763
Materials	Wood
Battles/wars	Pontiac's Rebellion

Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Designated	October 10, 1972

Fort Venango, a small British fort built in 1760 near the site of Franklin, Pennsylvania, replaced Fort Machault, a French fort burned by the French in 1759 near the end of the French and Indian War. About June 16, 1763, during Pontiac's War, the fort was captured by Seneca and Mingo warriors. The 12 to 16 soldiers of the fort were killed outright, except for the commander, Lieutenant Francis Gordon, who was forced to write a letter detailing why the Indians had risen against the British. He transcribed two complaints: the scarcity of gunpowder for the past two years and the fact that the English, contrary to their promises, were keeping forts, and building new forts, in Indian territory. He was then slowly tortured and roasted to death at the stake, and the fort was burnt to the ground.^[1]

The fort was named after the nearby Delaware/Munsee Indian village, Venango.

References

↑ Pontiac and the Indian Uprising; Peckham, Howard H.; University of Chicago Press; 1947; Pgs. 167-8

Charles M. Stotz, Outposts of the War for Empire: The French and English in Western Pennsylvania: Their Armies, Their Forts, Their People, 1749-1764 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985).

External links

Historical marker in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War

1754	Battle of Jumonville Glen Battle of the Great Meadows

1755	Braddock expedition Battle of the Monongahela

1756	Kittanning Expedition

1758	Battle of Fort Duquesne Battle of Fort Ligonier Treaty of Easton

1763	Paxton Boys

Frontier Forts	Fort Augusta Fort Bedford Fort Deshler Fort Duquesne Fort Halifax Fort Hunter Fort Le Boeuf Light's Fort Fort Ligonier Fort Loudoun Fort Machault Fort Necessity Fort Pitt Fort Presque Isle Fort Prince George Redstone Old Fort Fort Venango

Features of Venango County, Pennsylvania

People	Charles Almanzo Babcock Orrin Dubbs Bleakley John Wilkes Booth Mai Rogers Coe Cornplanter William Holmes Crosby Charles Vernon Culver Hildegarde Dolson William L. Durkin Albert Gallatin Egbert Frank Evans Gabby Gabreski John Galbraith Leon H. Gavin Calvin Willard Gilfillan Alexander Hays Samuel Hays Stevin Hoover John W. Howe Shauna Howe Willis James Hulings Chris Kirkpatrick Johnny Appleseed Kathryn Kuhlman Rolland Lawrence Ted Marchibroda Alexander McDowell James H. Osmer Spencer Peterson Arnold Plumer Jesse L. Reno Abbie G. Rogers Henry H. Rogers Milton William Shreve Joseph C. Sibley Dave Smalley Peter Moore Speer Tubby Spencer Ida M. Tarbell John Wesley Van Dyke Howard Zahniser

Geography	Allegheny River Clear Creek State Forest Cornplanter State Forest East Sandy Creek French Creek Oil Creek

History	Drake's Well Fort Franklin Fort Le Boeuf Fort Machault Fort Venango McClintocksville Petroleum industry Pithole Pontiac's Rebellion USS Venango Wamsutta Oil Refinery National Register of Historic Places

Industry	Joy Mining Machinery Pennzoil Quaker State

Attractions	Applefest Custaloga Town DeBence Antique Music World Drake Well Museum Oil Creek State Park Oil Region Astronomical Observatory Franklin Silver Cornet Band Venango Regional Airport

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