Note 1121 — Chapter VIII

Sargent says the ruins of the fort which the French completed in 1755 at Venango were still (1855) to be seen at Franklin, Penna.; it was 400 feet square, with embankments then eight feet high. Sargent’s Braddock’s Exped., p. 41; Day, Hist. Coll. Penna., 312, 642. There is a notice of the original engineer’s draft of the fort in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ix. 248-249. Cf. S. J. M. Eaton’s Centennial Discourse in Venango County, 1876; and Egle’s Pennsylvania, pp. 694, 1122, where there is (p. 1123) a plan of the fort.