Fort Wall

Security has always been a concern for the U.S. military. The army designed the second Fort Smith (1838-1871) as part of line of forts from Minnesota to Louisiana to separate the territory occupied by Native American tribes from that settled ...

Fort Sewall

1630 - 1930

Built in 1742 for defence against French cruisers. U.S.S. "Constitution" sought shelter under the fort's guns when chased by H.M.S. "Tenedos" and "Endymion" April 3, 1814. Named after Samuel Sewall of Marblehead, Chief Justice of Massachusetts in 1814.

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Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Fort Sewall

Fort Sewall

Marblehead Massachusetts

Marblehead, founded in 1629, has always been a famous seaport – for fishing, foreign trade, boat building, sail making and yachting. Local sailors have been champions in world competitions, the America's Cup and the Olympics. Many had their ...

Fort Sewall Site Plan

Fort Sewall Site Plan

Legend

A Kitchen

B Guard Room

C Store Room

D Dungeon

E Magazine

F Temporary Magazine

The bomb-proof headquarters, covered with several feet of earth, consists of four rooms (left to right):

Room A – a kitchen with fireplace and well. ...

Fort Sewall

Fort Sewall

Marblehead Massachusetts

Marblehead, founded in 1629, has always been a famous seaport – for fishing, foreign trade, boat building, sail making and yachting. Local sailors have been champions in world competitions, the America's Cup and the Olympics. Many had their ...

Fort Walla Walla

To the west, at the junction of the Walla Walla and Columbia Rivers, is the site of a trading post built in 1818.

Fort Walla Walla was a vital link in the region’s fur trade, and helped open up the Northwest ...

Doesn't Every Fort Have a Wall?

After you cross this bridge over the Pawnee Fork River, you will be able to walk directly into an 1860s Army post. Today no wall of sharpened upright logs surrounds Fort Larned because the Army never put such a ...