ABSTRACT
Learning that the French were established at that strategic point, the original plans had to be altered, and, in addition to constructing a road, Washington was to build a fort on the Monongahela River at the mount of Redstone Creek. The stockade was then checked at a fourth point on the circle, permitting its outline to be plotted with considerable accuracy. Excavating was resumed in September, the first operation being the removal of the 1932 stockade, “firing step”, log cabin, and paved walks. Every writer on Fort Necessity, and everyone who has drawn a map of the surface remains, real/imaginary, assumed that the stockade had been built partly over Great Meadow Run to provide a ready source of water for the men stationed within the fort. Lacking archaeological evidence, people can only surmise that the storehouse was probably a very crude log structure. No less important than the discovery of the stockade remains was that of the entrenchments.
