Huff's fort was established around 1811 or 1812 northeast of

Fort Vallonia Vallonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Driftwood and Brownstown townships, Jackson County, Indiana, United States. It was an 18th-century French settlement and 19th-century American frontier fortification kno ...

in present-day Jackson County, Indiana, United States. Huff's fort was established for the protection of early

settler A settler is a person who has human migration, migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a ...

s land near the east fork of the White River. It was said not to have the fortifications of Vallonia but served as an important outpost as did

Ketcham's fort Ketcham's fort was a 19th-century fort northeast of Fort Vallonia in Jackson County, Indiana. Established Ketcham's fort was established around 1811 or 1812 on John Ketcham's land near the east fork of the White River for the protection of earl ...

a bit closer to Fort Vallonia.

John Sage and others built a fort at his place, but the princepal fort was at Vallonia, Huff's fort, higher up, and Ketcham's fort, still above and outside.

The Indians killed Buskirk and stole his two fine horses. The corpse was brought into Ketcham's fort the same evening, and on the next morning John Johnson, Robert Sturgeon and others came and hauled the corpse to Huff's fort for interment; after which Sturgeon started home and was killed at the half-mile branch, near Vallonia.Esarey, Logan, Readings in Indiana History, Indiana University, 1914, p. 141

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{{Indiana History Forts in Indiana Indiana in the War of 1812 Buildings and structures in Jackson County, Indiana Pre-statehood history of Indiana