Fort Hennepin

Fort Hennepin: Dec 1678, Niagara County, Lewiston. An advance of LaSalle's expedition led by LaMotte constructed a cabin surrounded by palisades near the foot of the Lewiston escarpment. Named Fort Hennepin, after the priest and historian of the expedition, in a 1914 work by Peter Porter. Within a year it was replaced by Fort Conti nearer the mouth of the Niagara River and on the site of the future Fort Niagara. Near this site the French later built an unnamed blockhouse in 1721 it was the site of Joncaire's Blockhouse or Magazin' Royal, and similarly this was replaced by an unnamed British facility in 1761. For history of companion works at the top of the escarpment see Fort Gray.

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