Burnt Cabins Historic District

Burnt Cabins is a linear village in northeastern Fulton County, arranged along the 18th-century Forbes Road and the Three Mountain Road, which was laid out in 1771 as a shortcut east to Shippensburg. Its settlement followed the 1750 burning of cabins by provincial authorities, and the village took its name from that event. During the mid-19th century, drovers moving cattle to Philadelphia and New York used the Three Mountain Road to avoid turnpike tolls, which brought trade to its taverns, stores and hotels. The district contains 44 contributing buildings and one contributing structure, including the remnant trace of the Forbes-Three Mountain road. Its buildings show three phases: Greek Revival work from the early mid-19th century, late 19th-century Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne houses, and early 20th-century Foursquares and bungalows. The village was bypassed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1941, and its surviving form reflects that long decline in through traffic.