Fort Ward, San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park

Located at the confluence of the St. Marks and Wakulla Rivers, Native Americans used the site of Fort San Marcos de Apalache for thousands of years. The park museum displays pottery and tools unearthed near the original fort.

Beginning in ...

Fort Howard Stockade

853 degrees north 45 degrees, 7 minutes east, from this tablet, stands a flag pole, marking the southeast corner of the stockade of Fort Howard; occupied by United States troops August 1816, and almost continuously until 1852. On this ...

Fort Edward

1755

Great Carrying Place

Fort Nicholson 1709

Fort Lydius 1731

Fort Lyman 1755

Marker is on Lakes to Locks Passage (U.S. 4), on the right when traveling south.

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Old Fort Edward

This boulder

marks the site of

Old Fort Edward

1755 – 1780

Erected by the

Jane McCrea Chapter

Daughters of

the American Revolution

1914

Marker is on Old Fort Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Fort Edward Johnson

On April 19, 1862, General Johnson, with General Lee’s approval, moved our regiment from Allegheny Mountain to Shenandoah Mountain. To protect ourselves from Yankee bullets, we dug about a mile of trench in this rocky ground. We then opened our ...

Welcome to Fort Edward Johnson

My name is Shepherd Green Pryor, but my friends and family call me “Shep.” I was elected First Lieutenant of the Muckalee Guards, Company A, 12th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry. We’ve just survived a cold Virginia winter on the top ...

Fort Ward

1861-1865

This stairway leads up the west wall of Fort Ward between the Northwest Bastion (to the left) and the Southwest Bastion (to the right). Fort Ward had 14 cannon emplacements along this area of the wall that created overlapping fields ...

Entrance Gate to Fort Ward

Officers' Hut

The Fort Ward entrance gate, completed in May 1865, provided the only access to the interior of the fort. The gate's decorative details include stands of cannonballs and the insignia (castle) of the Army Corps of Engineers which designed ...

Fort Ward

1861-1865

On May 24, 1861, when Virginia's secession from the Union became effective, Federal forces immediately occupied Northern Virginia to protect the City of Washington, D.C. After the Confederate victory at the Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas) in ...

Fort Edward Johnson

On April 19, 1862, General Johnson, with General Lee’s approval, moved our regiment from Allegheny Mountain to Shenandoah Mountain. To protect ourselves from Yankee bullets, we dug about a mile of trench in this rocky ground. We then opened our ...