A 1926 newspaper article describing the ceremony for the unveiling of the Fort Halifax Monument near the site of Fort Halifax, Halifax Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 May 1926:
FORT HALIFAX NOW IS PERPETUATED
Huge Bolder With Bronze Tablet Marks Location of Colonial Post
Harrisburg, Mary 15 [1926] — Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery, curator of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Dr. Albert Cook Myers, secretary of the State Historical Commission; Judge John E. Fox, of the Dauphin County Courts; Chief Strongwolf, and others were speakers today at the unveiling of the marker at the site of old Fort Halifax of French and Indian War days, just north of Halifax. The marker was erected by the State Historical Commission and the Society of Pennsylvania Women in New York. It contains a bronze plate designed by Dr. Paul B. Czet, of Philadelphia.
Miss Florence Wallace Hamilton, of this city, a student at Highland Hall, Hollidaysburg, unveiled the marker. The ground for the site was given by Henry Kelker Jr. of Harrisburg.
The fort was built in 1756 and the mounds formed by the old fortifications are still to be made out. There was a large gathering and a committee of Halifax residents entertained the speakers and the State official party.
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