[1] John Light purchased the land on December 29, 1738, from Caspar Wistar, and wife, Katherine, of the City of Philadelphia, Brass Button Maker, for 82 pounds and 4 shillings.

[2] The historic uses of Light's Fort were a frontier homestead, a community meeting hall, a Mennonite Religious meeting facility, a storage warehouse when the Union Canal (Pennsylvania) was operating and a private fortress during the French and Indian War that could shelter up to two hundred settlers during Native Indian uprisings.

In modern times, it has been used as a grain storage facility, a distillery, a beverage distributorship, apartment building and museum.

The large masonry constructed Light's Fort building provided a safe haven for townspeople if any skirmishes with Native Indians occurred.

With its fourteen-inch thick exterior walls made of limestone and its roof covered with clay tiles to prevent fires from flaming arrows it stood as a formidable force against Native Indian attacks.

Because these tunnels were abandoned the openings in the Light's Fort cellar walls were closed with limestone building stones and plastered with concrete sometime during the mid to late-1800s.

Marcella brought the Native Indian girl inside to the kitchen and feed her a hot pork dinner and then took her upstairs to sleep.

In 2015, a lone workman performing repairs on a warm day reported cold eerie feelings while on a ladder.

[13][11] The Historic Preservation Trust of Lebanon County is conducting work in progress restorations to the interior and exterior of Light's Fort.

Interior restorations will include the plastering and painting of all interior walls, covering all floors with wood plank boards, replacing current doors and windows with Colonial style products, building solid wood shutters that hinge and swing from the inside on all windows, installing a public accessible restroom on the first floor and rebuilding the fireplace with its original bricks.

The end result envisioned will be to make Light's Fort a living museum of United States colonial history.