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Camden, New Jersey
The USS New Jersey, commissioned in 1943, is the most decorated battleship in the U.S. Navy, with service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam…
Wilmington, North Carolina
The Battleship North Carolina, commissioned in 1941 and now a museum ship on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, took part in every major…
Galveston, Texas
The Battleship Texas, commissioned in 1914, served in both world wars and is the last surviving dreadnought-era battleship. It spent…
Buffalo, New York
The park holds the destroyer USS The Sullivans, the cruiser USS Little Rock and the submarine USS Croaker. Staff report shadow figures and…
St. Augustine, Florida
After pirates nearly overran St. Augustine in 1668, Queen Mariana of Spain ordered a proper stone fort built to defend the colony;…
Mandan, North Dakota
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park near Mandan, on the Missouri River, preserves the site of the Army post from which Lieutenant Colonel…
Wilmington, California
Established in January 1862 as Camp San Pedro and soon renamed Camp Drum after Lieutenant Colonel Richard Drum, this post served as Union…
Abercrombie, North Dakota
Fort Abercrombie, on the Red River of the North, was North Dakota's first military post, established in 1858 as a way station for wagon…
Newport, Rhode Island
Fort Adams is a coastal fortress guarding Newport harbor, now a state park. Caretakers told Ghost Hunters in 2015 of physical encounters…
Fort Bayard, New Mexico
Fort Bayard was founded in 1866 as a cavalry post that included Buffalo Soldiers and Apache scouts, and it later became a tuberculosis…
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Fort Bridger began in 1843 as a trading post founded by mountain man Jim Bridger and served as an Army post from 1858 to 1890. It is now a…
Coupeville, Washington
Fort Casey on Whidbey Island's Admiralty Head was built in the 1890s as one of the coast artillery forts guarding Puget Sound and is now a…
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…
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…
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…