"the writer, after an inspection of the site found it on an elevated plot of ground, where now stands the shirleysburg female seminary, within the limits of the borough of shirleysburg and on the east side of it about one-fourth of a mile from aughwick. a small stream passes southwest through germany valley between the spot where the fort was located and the end of owing's hill, and empties into aughwick creek" (1916, 567-566).