Potter's Fort was established in 1777 along the Kishacoquillas Path The path runs from present-day
Milesburg to
Lewistown passing over the Seven Mountains,
Mount Nittany, and
Bald Eagle Mountain. In 1768 the
Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed between the
Haudenosaunee,
Cherokee, and the
Kingdom of Great Britain, establishing the
Line of Property, which was the boundary between the colonists and Indigenous peoples. European settlers violated the treaty by establishing
illegal settlements along the
West Branch Susquehanna River prompting retaliation from the Iroquois Confederacy. In 1778 two American soldiers were attacked a mile east of Potter's Fort as a part of a larger raiding campaign that resulted in the
Big Runaway. James Potter abandoned the fort that year and evacuated to
Fort Augusta along with the rest of the settlers in Penns Valley and the West Branch Susquehanna Valley. When Potter returned to Penns Valley he settled further south along the Kishacoquillas Path in what would come to be known as
Potters Mills. A
historic marker was erected in 1947. ==References==