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Kern's Fort
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	305 Dewey St., Morgantown, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°37′31″N 79°56′59″W / 39.62528°N 79.94972°W / 39.62528; -79.94972
Area	less than one acre
Built	1772
Architect	Michael Kerns
Architectural style	Colonial, Log House
NRHP reference No.	93000225
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1993

Kern's Fort, also known as Michael Kern's Cabin, is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is a one-story log house built in 1772. It is built of chestnut logs and covered with wood clapboards. Attached to the rear is a 19th-century frame addition. It was built by Michael Kern, perhaps, the first permanent settler of what is now Morgantown. When Lord Dunmore's War started in 1774, Kern built a stockaded fort around his cabin.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is located in the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Pamela Ball Redmond (September 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Kern's Fort" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-18.

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