Fort Frederick

Facing The River

On an Eminence in This Broad Street

Opposite St Peters Church Stood

Fort Frederick.

Built About 1676, Removed 1789

Gallows Hill to the South

Fort Burial Ground to the North.

Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Street and Eagle Street and State Street, ...

Fort Frederick

In the Middle of this Street

To the East Stood

Fort Frederick

Goal of Burgoyne's Drive to

Split the Colonies - 1777

Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Street and Eagle Street and State Street, on the right when traveling south on ...

Fort Frederick

Fort Frederick Governor Edmund Andros Made an Inspection in Albany in 1676 and Found Fort Orange, Located Near the Foot of Madison Avenue in Poor Condition. He Ordered a New Fort Constructed at a Site in the Center of State ...

Fort Frederick Officers’ Quarters

A Ghost in the Ground.

Before you is the foundation of “The Governor’s House,” the building that served as the officers’ quarters, ceremonial hall and storeroom for Fort Frederick. What did that building look like? We know the size and general ...

Fort Frederick

A Witness to War

Built by the Maryland colony in 1756 during the French and Indian War, Fort Frederick’s stone walls surrounded three large buildings. The colonists abandoned the frontier fort in 1759, when the threat of Indian raids subsided. During ...

Fort Frederick

Maryland State Park

Colonial stone fort built 1756 for Province of Maryland by Gov. Horatio Sharpe to protect frontier against French and Indians after Braddock’s defeat. Detention camp for British prisoners 1776–83. Occupied 1861–2 by Union troops. George Washington was here ...