Storia e directory delle città di Newton e Ransom, Contea di Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; . s lati raggiungere-ed quasi al bordo della banca del fiume. Stand-ing circa settanta piedi sopra l'acqua era terra-marchio prominente, e una posizione vantaggiosa po-nelle operazioni militari locali. In occasione dell'assedio di Fort Wyoming nel 1771 agun fu montato qui dagli Yankees; e del resto del comune e fino alla città. Il nome, tuttavia, ha sempre aderito ad esso, e anche se nessuna vestigia degli eminenceremains, il Redoubt è un nome familiare thatstill segna il punto. Stewarts Block House The St

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History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . s sides reach-ed nearly to the edge of the river bank. Stand-ing some seventy feet above the water it was aprominent land-mark, and an advantageous po-sition in the local military operations. On theoccasion of siege of Fort Wyoming in 1771 agun was mounted here by the Yankees; and of the rest of the common and down to the citygrade. The name, however, has always adheredto it, and although no vestige of the eminenceremains, the Redoubt is a familiar name thatstill marks the spot. Stewarts Block House The Stewart block-house was situated in Han-over township, a few rods from the bank of theSusquehanna river, on a slight rise of ground, on lot No. 3, First Division. It was built byCaptain Lazarus Stewart in the year 1771, andis said to have been the first building in thetownship. It was built of logs and was one anda half stories high. It contained four roomson the first and ample space in the floor abovefor convenience of its defenders. The partabove the second floor projected beyond the. STEWARTS BLOCKHOUSE(Courtesy of Wyoming Historical Society) though no execution seems to have been done, the practice was doubtless of benefit. Again, in 1784, during the second Pennamite war, alike use was made of the eminence by the Con-necticut people. They took possession of the Re-doubt, which lay between the fort and the gristmills on Mill Creek that were also in the handsof the Pennamites, and thereby cut ofi the sup-plies of the fort. However well the Redoubtwas situated for the uses mentioned, its locationin respect to the march of modem improve-ments was quite unfortunate; it seems to havebeen planted directly in its path. The NorthBranch canal, by a sweeping turn at this point, sheared off of the rocky faces of the barrier.The extension of River street cut a deep channeithrough it in another direction, severing it fromthe main hill. The Lehigh Valley railroad, successor to the canal, to obt

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