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Oswego, New York
Fort Ontario in Oswego, on Lake Ontario, dates to 1755 and saw fighting in the French and Indian War, the Revolution and the War of 1812.…
Pensacola, Florida
At Fort Pickens, visitors and rangers today describe a persistent sense of being watched in certain rooms of the fort. Completed in 1834 to…
Savannah, Georgia
Completed in 1847 on Cockspur Island, Fort Pulaski was considered one of the most formidable harbor defenses in the country — until April…
El Reno, Oklahoma
Fort Reno began in 1874 as a military camp to oversee the Cheyenne and Arapaho, later hosted Buffalo Soldiers and the Land Run of 1889, and…
Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Revere stands on Telegraph Hill in Hull, where defenses have been built since the Revolution and the remains of the fort and its…
Crawford, Nebraska
Fort Robinson in northwest Nebraska was an Army post from 1874 to 1948 and is now a state park and historic site. It is where Oglala leader…
Detroit, Michigan
The Fort Shelby Hotel opened in 1918 as a ten-story hotel in downtown Detroit and was expanded to twenty-one stories in 1927. After it…
Sidney, Nebraska
Visitors and staff at the Post Commander's Home report phantom footsteps on the narrow maids' staircase and the sound of a body falling on…
Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sill, founded in 1869 as an Army post on the southern plains, is still an active Army installation. Its Old Post Quadrangle of stone…
Lake City, South Dakota
Fort Sisseton in northeastern South Dakota began as an Army post in the 1860s on Dakota hunting grounds, later served as a hunting lodge…
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Fort Stanton was an Army post founded in 1855 in the hills of Lincoln County, in the country of the Mescalero Apache and the Lincoln County…
Warrenton, Oregon
Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia River, was built in 1863 to defend against Confederate raiders and was in service until 1947; it…
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fort Taber, later Fort Rodman, guards the entrance to New Bedford harbor and is now a city park with a museum and Battery Milliken. Ghost…
Ticonderoga, New York
Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain was built by the French in 1755 as Fort Carillon and was fought over in the French and Indian War and…
Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor was built between 1833 and 1861 and held Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Its…
Durant, Oklahoma
Fort Washita near Durant was built in 1842 as a frontier army post to protect the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, was occupied by…
Lake George, New York
Fort William Henry at the foot of Lake George is a reconstruction of the British fort that fell to the French in the siege of 1757, a…
Port Townsend, Washington
Fort Worden, a coastal artillery fort at Port Townsend built around 1902, is now a state park, conference center and arts campus with…
Key West, Florida
Construction on this Civil War-era fort began in 1845 as part of a coastal defense network, slowed for years by yellow fever epidemics and…
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Opened by Universal Pictures on January 1, 1927, as the Strand Theatre — for more than 40 years the largest movie house in the Jonesboro…
Centralia, Illinois
Centralia Foundation Park, a 300-plus-acre private park established in 1943, includes a sledding hill nicknamed Stover's Hill after Paul…
Roswell, Georgia
Founders Cemetery is where the Roswell Ghost Tour ends, and tour guides say significant paranormal activity has been recorded in and around…
Reelsville, Indiana
The Four Arches railroad trestle, in Putnam County near Reelsville and Greencastle, is documented in Indiana State University's folklore…
Spokane, Washington
The Fox Theater in downtown Spokane, an Art Deco movie palace opened in 1931 and now the home of the Spokane Symphony, is said to be…