Description
In May 1755, one of the British officers with General Braddock described the newly-christened Fort Cumberland: " is situated within 200 yards of Will's Creek, on a hill and about 400 from the Potomack; its length from east to west is about 200 yards, and breadth 46 yards, and is built by logs driven into the ground, and about 12 feet above it." Eleven days later, he reported that 100 carpenters were at work building a magazine and constructing a bridge over Will's Creek.
Diagrams and drawings of the Fort exist in the British Museum. A scale model of the fort resides in the aforementioned church .
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