[WallShadow]

I lived within 10 miles of the line of forts and fortified houses set up to resist any attacks by the local tribes of Indians. Before I moved from the area, the walls and blockhouse of Fort Loudon had been recreated. Our local gun club and buckskinning group was called the Ft. McCord Militia. Also nearby were the sites in order heading north from the Mason-Dixon line, of Ft Marshall, Ft. Davis, Reverend Steele's Fort, Ft.McDonnell, Ft. Loudon ,Ft. Waddel, and the massacred Ft. McCord as mentioned below. These were designed to form rallying points for settlers to flee to in the event of an attack.

"By early 1756, the Pennsylvania General Assembly finally decided to take action and defend the settlers. Pennsylvania voted to build a chain of forts along the Blue Ridge Mountains from the Delaware River to the Mason-Dixon Line. These forts were to serve and protect communities from Indian attacks. William McCord and his brothers built Ft. McCord in 1756 as part of this line of Pennsylvania’s frontier forts. It is well known and memorialized in Pennsylvania history where 26 people lost their lives or were captured on April 1, 1756 in an attack by the Indians backed by the French."