 Hockingport was the site of a pre-revolutionary military camp and fortification built in Oct. 1774 by Virginia militiamen under Lord Dunmore at the confluence of the Hocking and Ohio Rivers called Fort Gower.The fort served as the base camp for the militia during Dunmore's War.It was the namesake fort of the Fort Gower Resolves issued by the soldiers stationed there in Nov. 1774.