Behind the Marker
Fort Lyttelton (modern Fort Littletown) was one of the provincial posts built in 1755-56 to defend Pennsylvania's frontier. Like Fort Shirley, another post built by the fur trader and Indian agent George Croghan, Fort Lyttelton was little more than a stockade hastily thrown up around some buildings, to provide refuge to colonists besieged by Indians in the violent months following Braddock's Defeat. After the fall of Fort Granville in July 1756, it was the only post west of the Susquehanna River maintained by the provincial government.

In 1758, Fort Lyttelton was garrisoned, by British regulars marching along the Forbes Road. In 1763, it was again occupied by colonial volunteers raised in response to Pontiac's Rebellion. Its southerly orientation made it a base for scouting parties during the Seven Years' War, as well as a center for receiving Cherokee and other southern Indians recruited to the British cause.