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Fort Cocke was astockade, made of woodenpalisades up stream fromFort Ashby. It was a square ninety feet on a side and enclosed about 1/5 acre.Blockhouses were built at each of the four corners. Abarracks to house fifty men was constructed within the stockade.It was built by CaptainWilliam Cocke's First Company of Rangers under orders ofGeorge Washington dated October 26, 1755. It has been suggested that the fort was probably completed within a month.[by whom?]
It was constructed south of George Parker's land. This was on Lot 13 of theLord Fairfax'sPatterson Creek Manor. Thefort was constructed on the east side ofPattersons Creek, on a flat terrace above a rocky shelf overlooking the creek bottom, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of presentHeadsville, West Virginia.
Being it was small, Fort Cocke was a place of limited refuge for settlers living in thePattersons Creek Valley. After the capture ofFort Duquesne, troops garrisoning the fort were gradually withdrawn and the fort was abandoned during the 1760s.[1] In a 1770 trip down Pattersons CreekGeorge Washington pointed out the place where the fort had stood indicating it has fallen to nothing within 15 years.
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