Manada Gap is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Dauphin County

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

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, United States

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, in the Harrisburg

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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-Carlisle

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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 area, near Fort Indiantown Gap

Fort Indiantown Gap

Fort Indiantown Gap, also referred to as "The Gap" or "FIG", is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. A portion of the installation is located in eastern Dauphin County...

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Fort Manada

Distant about twelve miles from Fort Hunter is the passage through the Blue Range called Manada Gap, the next station in the chain occupied by the government. As in the case of Fort Hunter, the settlers about Manada Gap had already commenced a place of defense in the latter part of the fall of 1755. In February 1756, Captain Frederick Smith, with his company of provincials, cither completed the fort already commenced or erected a new one. This was called Manada Fort.

It was the ordinary block-house surrounded by a stockade. It stood on what is now the property of William Rhoads, east of the Manada Creek

Manada Creek

Manada Creek is a tributary of Swatara Creek in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States.The name is derived in Spanish, meaning "herd". The creek is born in Fort Indiantown Gap, East Hanover Township, flowing northwest through Blue Mountain. As it flows through East Hanover Township,...

, about midway between it and the road to Jonestown, Pennsylvania

Jonestown, Pennsylvania

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and three-quarters of a mile south of the mill in Manada Gap. On the historical map it is located on the wrong side of the stream and rather too close to the mountain. Being of minor importance,or at least so considered, it was used only a couple of years. The exact location of this fort has never before been given.