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American Pioneer Families

Arriving on the American Continent in the late 1500s - 1830s

LIGHT (and variant surname ancestors & allied families)

Light’s Fort, aka the “Old Fort”, ~1895. Appears to be the same photo that was published in Croll’s “Ancient and Historic Landmarks in the Lebanon Valley”.* Daniel Light (1818-1865) built the brick house alongside. It was razed in October of 2016.

A once circulated postcard of this image had the little “outhouse” on the left removed (long before Photoshop) — surely suggesting it was indeed an outhouse!

* Philip Columbus Croll, Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1895. Chapter XXI, pages 203- 210, "A Walk About Steitztown".