This fort was constructed by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1792 to resist the raids of local Native Americans who fought against the settlement of the Ohio River Valley by the United States.

The cottages have electric lights and outlets as well as double and single bunks that sleep up to five, wooden floors, windows, skylights, a porch, fire ring, and picnic table.

The common game species are ruffed grouse, eastern gray squirrels, wild turkey and white-tailed deer.

[1] Duke Lake had been stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission with trout in the spring and again in the fall.

[3] Structural cracks in the Duke Lake Dam are reported to be the result of longwall mining.

The trails pass through several different habitats, mature forests, evergreen plantations, wet valley bottoms and fields.