Perimeter of the Fort

You stand upon historic ground within the north wall of Fort Cumberland. Your location (X) is shown on the diagram. Lines of barracks (I), parallel with the street, were to your front and in the rear along the line of ...

This Tablet Marks the Site of Old Fort Cumberland

Which was built in 1755 by order of the British Government and named in honor of the Duke of Cumberland, Captain General of the British Army. It was the base of military operations of General Edward Braddock and Colonel George ...

Fighting the Sea - Saving the Fort

Seacoast erosion, intensified by hurricanes and other major storms, has been a problem and controversial issue at Fort Fisher and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast for decades.

Erosion at Fort Fisher intensified after the 1930s. By 1968 more than 200 ...

Lamb Expands the Fort, 1862-1865

Col. William Lamb took command on July 4, 1862. For two years over 1,000 soldiers, slaves, and free blacks worked six days a week.

J.A. McMillan, a soldier at Fort Fisher, wrote: “They everlastingly make us work. … We work nine ...

Fort Strother

Creek Indian War Headquarters of Gen. Andrew Jackson 1813 - 1814 Erected By St. Clair County

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 144 and Valley Drive, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 144.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Buria

[Front Text] : "Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation"

Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River. Militiamen from Kentucky, part of the forces led by War of 1812 Brig. Gen. ...

The Battle For Fort Blair

William C. Quantrill, a former Kansas school teacher, headed a guerilla army which had committed many outrages around Lawrence and Kansas City, one being the Lawrence Massacre. Quantrill received a commission of Colonel, supposedly either from General Sterling Price or ...

The Fort Jay Theater

Governors Island

On Governors Island, a boat ride away from the activities of New York City, entertainment could be hard to come by. Nevertheless, performances were a part of life on the Island for many years. Early performances took place ...

The New Fort in Virginia / Virginia Dare

On this site, in July – August, 1585 (O.S.), colonists, sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh, built a fort, called by them

“The New Fort in Virginia”

These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in America. They ...

150th Anniversary of the Capture of This Fort

1775 - - - 1925

In commemoration

of the one hundred and

fiftieth anniversary

of the capture of this fort

May 10th 1775

which was the beginning of

the War of the Revolution in the

State of New York