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Forts (edit list)

Fort	State	Dates	Mentions	Notes
Coontz's Fort	MO	1800?	1	Adm. Robert E. Coontz's autobiography From the Mississippi to the Sea p16 has "Coontz's Fort, west of St. Charles, was built by John Coontz before 1800, and a marker has been placed there by the Missouri Daughters of the American Revolution." See also a squib at North American Forts.
Deshler's Fort	PA		1	A fortified house rather than a fort strictly speaking, but referred to as such in many sources, including at least one on my own site. A solid account is given in Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, as transcribed on this USGenWeb page.
Eaton's Fort	TN	1776	1	Not completely sure it was a fort, but at least it was something like one, and a battle was fought there in 1776, mentioned just once on my site, and in passing. See [1], [2], etc.
Forks Fort	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. It was the departure point of Mackenzie's 1793 crossing of North America. In 1909 only "the foundations of the walls [were] left and the crumbling bricks of two old chimneys" (Wade, p228); by the late 1920s, a bit less (Wade, p230)
Fort Athabasca	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Bedford (2)	ND	1891-1892	3	(Cullum 2252) • (Cullum 2454) • (Cullum 2758).
Fort Bourbon	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Caillou	LA?	1861	2	Confederate (or Confederate-occupied), one of a group of forts evacuated by the Confederacy, mentioned by Kendall in Chapter 15 and Chapter 16.
Fort Caldwell	KS	1885	1	(Cullum 2535). Sparse references online, but including in printed books.
Fort Chipewyan	AB	1788-	1	Mentioned many times in Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. Pages at Wikipedia • Canadian Encyclopedia • Canada Historic Places.
Fort Columbus (2)	KY or IL		1	Freeman writes: "The newspapers that Lee read on his arrival in Richmond contained the gloomy intelligence that Fort Columbus, the advanced Confederate position on the Mississippi, thirty miles south of the confluence of the Ohio, had been abandoned by (Lee's) old West Point friend, Leonidas Polk"
Fort Conger	NU	1781		(NU=Nunavut, Canada) Short History of the United States Navy, ch. 24, in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article.
Fort Cornwallis	GA	1781	1	"At Augusta", captured by Lighthorse Harry Lee in that year, Freeman's Robert E. Lee, I.1, p3.
Fort Crowder	MO	1781		U.S. Army post in southwest Missouri, established in World War II. Named after (Cullum 2909). See Wickedpedia entry.
Fort Dauphin	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Des Prairies	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Edwards (2)	IL	1816‑1829	13	According to [3], established in June 1816. and the Mississippi, in or near Warsaw, IL.
Fort Federal Hill	MD	1861-1864	2	(Cullum 1073) • (Cullum 1451) who was the constructing engineer. See Wickedpedia article.
Fort Gelaspy	IA	1805	1	On my site: [4]. Probably a Frenchified spelling of Gillespie or Gillaspie. There is some doubt as to whether Pike actually saw this fort, see [5]
Fort Good Hope (3)	NT	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. Near the mouth of the Hare Indian River, see map
Fort Graham (2)	NC		1	In (Cullum 1994) — occurring just before he was posted to another fort in North Carolina, so not likely to be a mistake for the fort in Texas. Poking around online for it, I couldn't find much — except a "GRAHAM's Fort" in North Carolina, which I don't think is it (Revolutionary War), but it's not on FW either, so I'll add it to the pot as well: see this page at NCMarkers.Com.
Fort Harrison (6)	NB	1896-1898	1	(Cullum 3432)
Fort Hatteras	NC	1861-1862	1	(Cullum 902)
Fort Henry (7)	TN	1793	1	Not the same as Fort Henry (5); this one is mentioned by John Sevier in his diary in 1793, as follows (in toto):
Fort Holt	KY	1862	1	("organizing the defenses of the Mississippi River" in 1862) — but it's Cullum writing his own entry (Cullum 709), so it's gotta be right.
Fort Horseshoe	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Howard (4)	NM		1	Cullum, (Cullum 789). See also possibly Camp Howard (IT), below under Camps.
Fort Howard (5)	ID	1879	1	(Cullum 2074), date 1879. North American Forts calls it a Camp: actually has 3 of them all in Idaho.
Fort Jonquière	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Kearny (6)	NM or AZ	1859	1	(Cullum 917)
Fort Lacorne	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Lexington	MO	1861+	1	a Federal fort captured by the Confederates in 1861 or maybe 1862, called an important victory. Appears on my site once so far, (Cullum 2086), year 1866, characterized as "Ft. Lexington, Missouri River"
Fort Macpherson	NT	1849-	1	Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1849. See its own website.
Fort Matilda	ON	1813	1	in (Cullum 79)
Fort McIntosh (3)	PA	1778	1	Thwaites annotates a passage of Chapter 9 of Cuming's Tour to the West, referring to Beaver, PA, as follows:
Fort Norman	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Poskoiac	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Prince of Wales	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Providence	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Rae	NT	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. This Wikipedia article includes good capsule information on the fort, putting its foundation (as Fort Rae) in 1852; Wade, p91, mentions a bit of its earlier history.
Fort Resolution	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Richmond (2)	ME	1724	2	An early‑18c British fort somewhere near Norridgewock, mentioned twice on my site in connection with the British expulsion of a French mission there in 1724.
Fort Rocky Mountain	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Rouge	MB	1738-1749	1	See Wickedpedia.
Fort Russell (2)	IL	1812+	1	In Ill. Cath. Hist. Rev. 8:2 I find: "At the outbreak of the War of 1812 the ancient cannon of Fort Chartres, of seventeenth-century make, were removed thence and planted at Fort Russell on the northern outskirts of Edwardsville."
Fort Smith (7)	AB	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort St Charles (3)	MN	1713-	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. The fort has a website, [6]
Fort St John	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort St Pierre	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort St. Antoine	WI	1689	1	French trading fort at Prairie du Chien, best known for Nicolas Perrot's act of taking possession of the upper Mississippi for the King of France.
Fort St. Joseph (1)	LA	1700's	2	There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one at Pointe Coupée, and one elsewhere: see LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314.
Fort St. Joseph (2)	LA	1700's	1	There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one; and the other at Pointe Coupée: see LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314.
Fort Stephenson (2)	IA?	1800s	2	early 19c. Mentioned in at least 2 onsite books on Iowa history.
Fort Unalaska	?	1700s	2	Two very incidental bare mentions in Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Vauligny	zzz	1700s	1	Mentioned in passing in Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Vermilion	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Fort Waco	TX	1870	1	(Cullum 1845)the year is 1870
Fort Wade (2)	VA	1861-1865	2	[Vol. 4, Ch. 26], he is made to point to the nearby ramparts of Fort Wade in talking with someone after the war, somewhere near Manassas. During the war itself, Freeman has him pointing to it too:[Vol. 2, Ch. 24].
Fort York (3)	MB	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. At the mouth of the Nelson River on Hudson Bay.
Grand Portage Stockade	MN	1700s	1	Wade, Mackenzie of Canada, p12: "near the head of the lake, on a pleasant bay, they arrived at their destination, Grande (sic) Portage, where stood the establishment or fort of the company. 'The bottom of the bay,' writes Mackenzie, 'which forms an amphitheatre, is cleared of wood and inclosed, and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar palisadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for every convenience of trade, as well as to accommodate the proprietors and clerks during their short residence there.' Few traces of the fort now remain." (Wade regularly spells Grande Portage as if portage were feminine, which it is not.)
Houston's Station	TN	1788	1	From Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin:
Lafleur's Fort	zzz	zzz	1	Wade's Mackenzie of Canada.
Liberty Ordnance Depot	MO		2	in (Cullum 44) and (Cullum 896)
Mission Santa Catalina	GA?	1670	1	NPS booklet on Castillo San Marcos: "In 1670, a vessel bound for Charleston, mistakenly put in at Santa Catalina Mission, the Spanish post near the Savannah River…"
Nashville Ordnance Depot	TN	1865	1	Temporary depot, according to this webpage out there, discontinued sometime after 1865. (Cullum 2008) was its commander June 30, 1865, to May 26, 1866.
Omaha Ordnance Depot	NB	1872-1895	3	in (Cullum 2035) • (Cullum 2372) • (Cullum 2942)
Queen's Fort (3)	RI		1	Not the one you have, but a ruin near Wickford, RI. The barest remnants, but it's still a fort, and of some historical interest: I even have a photograph of bits of it onsite, such as it is: George Ellis & John Morris, King Philip's War • Chapter 9
Ralston Fort	PA		1	also called BROWN'S FORT. A solid account is given in Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, as transcribed on this USGenWeb page.
Savanna Proving Ground	IL	1917-2000	1	Atom bomb development in its later years. Some very interesting webpages out there, among them 1 and 2. On my own site, AOG obituary of George W. Burr the man who established it), and "Rock Island and the Rock Island Arsenal" (J. Ill. S. H. S. 33:304‑340). "At this time [1788] Sevier was planning to go against the Chickamaugas in their strongholds. A fort, called Houston's Station, was now erected, sixteen miles south of Knoxville and six miles from the present site of the town of Maryville; and Major Thomas Stewart was placed in command." "Camp Henry, Fort 24 October 1793." "The present town of Beaver was laid out in 1792, and eight years later made the county town for the newly-erected Beaver County. Fort McIntosh was a Revolutionary post erected (1778) by General Lachlin McIntosh, who had been chosen to succeed General Hand at Fort Pitt. It was the first military post in the Indian territory beyond the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. An important Indian treaty was held at this place in 1784; but four years later the fort was demolished, the erection of lower posts on the Ohio having rendered it superfluous."