[1] Harry Harrison Hain describes the fort in his History of Perry County: The fort was built on a bluff overlooking Bixler's Run, a tributary of Shermans Creek, on land owned by George Robinson (1727-1814, also spelled Robison or Robeson), a homesteader who later became a justice of the peace and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

It stood close to a well-traveled trade route from Shearman's Valley to Harris' Ford, later the site of Harrisburg.

[5] Gibson, his mother, and Elizabeth Henry, a neighbor, were outside the fort looking for lost cattle when they were attacked by Lenape warriors.

[7] Indians attacked the fort at the same time, killing a woman and a guard before the men in the fields returned to drive them off.

Because of the war, many local settlers had taken refuge in Fort Robinson, but some had decided to return to their farms to harvest their fields.

A dozen men from the fort, including three of George Robinson's sons, volunteered to try to reach those settlers who were harvesting in order to warn them.

The Shawnees discovered that they were being followed and ambushed the Robinson party at Buffalo Creek, killing five of them before the settlers fled.

[3]: 617 Attempts to locate and excavate the fort, as well as the site of the Woolcomber massacre, began in 2006, when test pits were dug near the 1922 historical marker.