“Forty Fort was named for a Revolutionary War era fort that the town’s original settlers built; there were forty of these settlers, so the town was later named Forty Fort. Forty Fort was prominent in the Pennamite-Yankee War and in the American Revolution. In the vicinity of this fort occurred, in 1778, the Battle of Wyoming. The first forty settlers from Connecticut built the fort, which explains how the borough got its name.”
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