Description: Fort Hunter was built in 1711 in Montgomery County, New York by the British Empire. The original Fort Hunter, also known as Old Fort Hunter, was built between 1711-12 at the request of Governor Hunter. The fort was built for the purpose of protecting the Native American tribe, known as the Mohawks. The fort was a 12-foot-high stockade, which, impressively, spanned 150 feet on each of its four sides. The fort surrounded the Queen Anne Chapel. There were 24-foot square-shaped blockhouses on each corner of the stockade, each standing two stories high. The blockhouses were double-loopholed and boasted chimneys and were each armed with seven and nine pounder cannons. Each blockhouse could hold twenty men. The compound also featured thirty cabins for residents. Records indicate that improvements were made to the fort in 1755. Old Fort Hunter was worn down by the beginning of the Revolutionary War, particularly after it suffered an accidental fire in 1773 which destroyed one blockhouse and two walls. The parsonage, located one mile east of the fort, was restored and used during the Revolutionary War as a fort, and may have been stockaded further. The fort and chapel were located near the village of Fort Hunter on the south side of the Mohawk River at Schoharie Creek. The fort and chapel were demolished in 1820 for the Schoharie Crossing of the Erie Canal. There is another account that indicates Fort Hunter was built for the Palatines in 1724.