Fort Roberdeau Historic Site

This is definitely an underrated spot in the middle of PA. The admission fee is only $5 per person, and a thorough tour is included. (BTW, on some particular days they have events with higher admission.) We really appreciated to have this lady as our tour guide. She was happy to answer all our questions and she accompanied us for quite a while, almost showed us everything. It was a very informative tour indeed and got an idea of how the life was like in 18 century. Other staff did a great job showing us some cool stuff too. Other than that, there are several trails you can choose from and take a walk around the fort. We did the nearest and shortest one, and it was quite pleasant. Although this replica(rebuilt in 1970s) is much smaller than the original one, we still enjoyed our visit a lot and hope more would discover this historic site, which can be dated back to 1778!

State College附近沒太多有趣的地方可去，所以滿推薦可以來這裏走一趟知性之旅。這裏在1778年曾為大陸軍生產彈藥，雖然才經營不過兩年的時間就因為產製效率不佳以及日後法國參戰而廢棄了，但也是個和美國獨立戰爭有關的景點。入場費5美金(遊客中心在穀倉裡)，可自由選擇要不要參加導覽，導遊會先在遊客中心介紹個大概，再帶你在走進堡壘裡面的各間小屋，介紹堡壘的歷史和當時的彈藥製造以及生活方式等等。現場也會另外有一些其他展示，像我們去的時候是演示當時的槍是如何讓子彈上膛的，也現場射擊一槍空包彈給我們感受一下。這個堡壘是重建的，可能只有原初堡壘的六分之一大而已。雖然堡壘本身並不大，但周圍有幾條步道可散步。整體來說還是滿有樂趣的。