
Fort Hunter is the romantic name given to Revolutionary War officer Archibald McAllister's country seat overlooking the Susquehanna River. A small workers’ village called Hunter's Mill also survives to give a sense of a frontier settlement at the point when the move of the capital to Harrisburg and the various canal projects centered on the Susquehanna made the region a center for transportation industry. McAllister's house is a handsome survival of the type of eighteenth-century country houses around Philadelphia. The Centennial Barn, constructed in 1876, is a fine example of a Pennsylvania bank barn in