Prickett's Fort State Park

Prickett's Fort State Park preserves and interprets a reconstructed 18th-century frontier fort at the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River, about five kilometres north of Fairmont. The fort is a full-scale reconstruction of the palisaded enclosure that sheltered settlers during the Indian Wars of the 1770s and the American Revolution, built with the same hand-hewn logs and construction techniques of the original.

The park runs living history demonstrations, particularly in summer, with costumed interpreters demonstrating frontier crafts, cooking, and period-accurate skills. The site is beautiful — the river confluence is surrounded by wooded hills — and the visitor centre has a good collection of artefacts and documents from the settlement period. Open spring through fall; check the park website for current hours and living history event schedules.

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A story
Prickett's Fort was established in 1774 at the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River as a refuge for settlers during Dunmore's War and the subsequent conflicts of the American Revolution. The fort was used by local families to shelter from raids during the most dangerous years of frontier warfare in the region. The original fort was abandoned by the late 18th century; the reconstruction on the site was completed in 1976 and is considered one of the most accurate 18th-century fort reconstructions in the eastern United States.

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