The Cisterns

A reliable supply of drinking water for the garrison was a priority at Fort Washington. Three wells dug early in the fort's construction proved inadequate.

By 1823, four cisterns were installed to store rainwater. Located underground at each end of the ...

Cisterns of the Construction Village

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Robert E. Lee, newly graduated from the

United States Military Academy at West

Point, joined Major Samuel Babcock of the

Army Corps of Engineers in 1829 to begin

work on building a construction village on

this site. Two years later Lee ...