Site of the Second Fort Crawford

1829 – 1856

The first Fort Crawford was built in 1816, and stood on the site now occupied by the "Villa Louis." After a decade of Mississippi River flooding, the U. S. Army relocated Fort Crawford to this site, constructing the ...

The Fortified Mouth of the Niagara River

The St.Lawrence and Great Lakes system was the most efficient route to the interior of the continent of North America. Large waterways allowed for substantial sailing vessels to trade and maintain contact with Native allies from Montreal to the Mississippi ...

Ellsworth, the Cowtown and Fort

When the Union Pacific built through here in 1867 this was buffalo country. As the engines chugged on west, the Hays newspaper reported: "Passengers on the cars between here and Ellsworth have almost daily fine sport shooting at buffalo, immense ...

Fort Severn and the United States Naval Academy

Fort Severn Chapter

National Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

honors

Fort Severn

and the

United States Naval Academy.

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"Locating Fort Severn within the U.S. Naval Academy, March 28, 1977."

Marker can be reached from Cooper Road 0.1 miles south of Santee Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Fortified Post

The first fortifications at Camden were constructed in March and April, 1780, to protect the town's powder magazine from surprise attack by Loyalists. When British forces under Lord Cornwallis occupied the town on June 1, they strengthened the magazine's fortifications ...

Site of the Fort Worth Medical College

The Forth Worth Medical College was established as the medical department of Fort Worth University in 1894 by a group of prominent area physicians. Among those in its small charter class was Frances Daisy Emery, the first woman medical school ...

The Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail

From about 1837 until 1850, more than a quarter million buffalo robes bought from Indians and 27 tons of fur company trade goods were hauled over the 300 mile long Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail that followed the White River through ...

The Fort Community...

Fort Stanwix is best known for the 1777 siege, but such dramatic events were not a feature of everyday life here.

Limited space inside the fort forced some soldiers and a few of their wives and children to live outside the ...

The Patriots Lay Siege to the Star Fort

May 22-June 18, 1781

"Our success is very doubtful."

General Nathanael Greene

May 23, 1781

General Greene entrusted Colonel Thaddeus Kosciuszko with the task of creating siegeworks -- a system of trenches -- that would allow his men to approach and capture the Star ...

Site of the First Masonic Hall in Fort Worth

After many years of debate, Fort Worth researchers identified this site in 1957 as the location of the city's first Masonic lodge. For more than twenty years, lodge members met in a two story hall at this location. The group ...