The borough later became home to the Lower School of the Wyoming Seminary and a portion of the southern end of the Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport. Forty Fort was officially incorporated as a borough in 1887. In the years following the Revolutionary War, Forty Fort became home to both the Nathan Denison House (built around 1790) and the Forty Fort Meetinghouse (built in 1806–08), which is located in the borough's cemetery. In 1900, a large stone was placed at the end of Fort Street, in Forty Fort Borough, by the Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the approximate location of Forty Fort. None of the inhabitants were injured after the surrender, although some had their personal effects plundered. The Loyalist commander paroled them on their promise to take no part in further hostilities. The next morning, July 4, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Denison agreed to surrender Forty Fort and two smaller forts, along with what remained of the militia. In the ensuing Battle of Wyoming, commonly known as the Wyoming Massacre, about 300 Americans were killed. On July 3, roughly 300 Patriot militia and 60 Continentals under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Zebulon Butler sallied from Forty Fort. Demands for Forty Fort to surrender were rebuked. On July 1, Fort Wintermoot and Fort Jenkins surrendered. ĭuring the Revolutionary War, a force of Loyalist soldiers and Haudenosaunee warriors arrived in the Wyoming Valley on June 30, 1778. These competing claims triggered the Pennamite-Yankee Wars but were resolved after the Revolutionary War when the federal government awarded the contested territory to Pennsylvania. Before the American Revolutionary War, both Connecticut and Pennsylvania claimed this territory, as Connecticut laid claim to a wide swath of land to its west based on its colonial charter. In 1770, forty settlers from Westmoreland County, Connecticut, established a fort along the Susquehanna River in the area now known as Forty Fort Borough.
The Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport and the Wyoming Seminary Lower School are both located in the borough. Its neighbors are Wyoming (to the north), Plains Township (to the east), Kingston (to the south), and Swoyersville (to the west). The population was 4,233 at the 2020 census. Forty Fort is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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