Fort Hunter is an unincorporated community in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[1] Six miles north of Harrisburg, on the south bank of Fishing Creek at its junction with the Susquehanna River, near Rockville, stood Fort Hunter, named after Robert Hunter, a pioneer who had previously settled there.

Its construction was probably commenced by the settlers circa October or November 1755, immediately after the massacre at Penns Creek, and completed by the Government troops when taking charge in January, 1756.

[2] It was a block-house surrounded by a stockade, and had additional barracks on the outside for the recruits on their way to Fort Augusta.

It occupied an important position and was used until the termination of all hostilities in 1764.