Fort Hunter Historic District

Fort Hunter District sits on the Susquehanna River and Fishing Creek about six miles north of Harrisburg, where settlement dates to about 1720. Benjamin Chambers was the first settler, and the site later became Hunter's Mill. During the French and Indian Wars, a supply fort and garrison of about 100 men were established here as part of a chain of forts. After the Revolution, Archibald McAllister acquired the property and built a large stone residence in 1814. The district holds a symmetrical Georgian mansion, a frame barn built in 1876 with ornate bargeboards and a hexagonal cupola, a blacksmith shop with most of its tools still present, a stone tavern, and a section of the Pennsylvania Canal. Its architecture and archaeological potential for the fort and garrison are the main reasons for its listing.