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Casper, Wyoming
Fort Caspar Museum in Casper is a reconstruction of the Platte Bridge Station and Fort Caspar, an overland-trail and Army post on the North…
Silver Springs, Nevada
Fort Churchill was built in 1860 to protect settlers and Pony Express riders, served as a Civil War supply depot, and was closed and…
Fernandina, Florida
Construction on Fort Clinch began in 1847, named for General Duncan Lamont Clinch of Seminole War fame, and was only about two-thirds…
San Angelo, Texas
Fort Concho, on the Concho River in San Angelo, was a frontier army post from 1867 into the late 1880s and is among the best preserved in…
Fort Davis, Texas
Fort Davis, in the mountains of West Texas, was founded in 1854 to protect travelers on the road between San Antonio and El Paso and later…
St. Petersburg, Florida
Built between 1898 and 1906 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and named for Hernando de Soto, this coastal fortification never saw combat…
Delaware City, Delaware
Built to guard the mouth of the Delaware River, Fort Delaware became a Union prison for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, holding…
Salt Lake City, Utah
Fort Douglas, founded in 1862 on the east bench above Salt Lake City and now on the University of Utah campus, holds a military museum in…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1862 as a Civil War-era coastal fort and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, Fort East Martello is now…
Kure Beach, North Carolina
Fort Fisher is said to be haunted by General W.H.C. Whiting, the fort's commander, whose apparition is described with his distinctive…
La Veta, Colorado
Fort Francisco was built in La Veta in the 1870s as a fortified trading post and later became a museum of the area's pioneer history. Staff…
Rawlins, Wyoming
Fort Fred Steele was an Army post from 1868 to 1886 on the North Platte River that guarded the Union Pacific line, and a small community…
Port Huron, Michigan
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse at the mouth of the St. Clair River dates to the 1820s and is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on the Great…
Highlands, New Jersey
Fort Hancock was a U.S. Army coastal defense post on the Sandy Hook peninsula from the 1890s until 1974, guarding the entrance to New York…
Hays, Kansas
The legend of the "Blue Light Lady" says Elizabeth Polly still walks Sentinel Hill, seen as a woman in blue with a white bonnet, as a misty…
Prospect, Maine
Fort Knox is a granite fortress on the Penobscot River in Prospect, begun in 1844 to guard the river approach and still standing as a state…
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Fort Laramie, founded in 1834 as a fur-trading post and an Army post from 1849 to 1890, was a major stop on the Oregon, California and…
San Pedro, California
Fort MacArthur's museum occupies Battery Osgood-Farley in Angels Gate Park and interprets the coast-defense fort whose gunners fired during…
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Mackinac is a British-built military post on the bluff above Mackinac Island's harbor, begun in 1780 and later held by the United…
Baltimore, Maryland
Fort McHenry is the star-shaped fort whose defense in September 1814 inspired the national anthem, and it later served as a Civil War…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River in south Philadelphia, was begun in 1771 and withstood a British siege in 1777; it later held…
Hampton, Virginia
Fort Monroe has a long list of reported apparitions: Jefferson Davis, held here as a prisoner after the Civil War, is said to walk the…
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Fort Morgan has guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay since 1834 and saw service in nearly every American conflict from the Civil War through the…
New Haven, Connecticut
Local ghost tellings describe glowing green orbs inside the gated bunkers at Fort Nathan Hale and figures of soldiers along the beach and…