Fort Smith, Arkansas
There are literally hundreds of old forts across the nation, ranging from military posts to fortresses established by fur trading companies, to private enterprises built solely to protect the pioneers within. Though many of these old forts are long gone, there are dozens of others that continue to stand, some restored, some in ruins, and others still currently serving as active posts. While this is not a complete list, we are continually adding to it as we travel and find more information.
“Fort Laramie is one of the posts established by the American Fur Company, who well-nigh monopolized the Indian trade of this whole region. ” — Francis Parkman
Fort Verde, Arizona by Kathy Weiser-Alexander
Camp Crittenden
Camp Date Creek
Camp Hualapai
Fort Apache
Fort Breckinridge (old Camp Grant)
Fort Buchanan
Fort Bowie
Fort Buchanan
Fort Defiance
Fort Goodwin
Fort Grant
Fort Huachuca
Fort Lowell
Fort McDowell
Fort Meeks/Lee’s Ferry
Fort Mojave
Fort Thomas
Fort Verde
Fort Whipple
Presidio de San Bernardino
Presidio of Santa Cruz
Presidio of San Ignacio de Tubac
Presidio of Tucson
San Xavier del Bac Mission
Fort Chaffee
Fort Logan H. Roots
Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento, California, 1847
Benicia Arsenal
Camp Yerba Buena
Drum Barracks
El Presidio De Santa Barbara
Fort Alcatraz
Fort Baker
Fort Barry
Fort Bidwell
Fort Bragg
Fort Cronkhite
Fort Crook
Fort Funston
Fort Guijarros
Fort Humboldt
Fort MacArthur
Fort Mason
Fort McDowell (Angel Island)
Fort Ord
Fort Point
Fort Reading
Fort Rosecrans
Fort Ross
Fort Tejon
Fort Winfield Scott
Fort Yuma
Presidio of Monterey
Presidio of San Diego
Presidio de San Francisco
Presidio Of Sonoma
Sutter’s Fort
Bents Fort, Colorado by Kathy Weiser-Alexander
Fort Lyon (Fort Wise)
Fort Massachusetts
Fort Morgan
Fort Pueblo
Fort Christina
Fort Delaware
Fort DuPont
Fort Miles
Fort Saulsbury
Castillo San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida by Dave Alexander
Bateria de San Antonio
Cantonment Clinch
Castillo De San Marcos
Fort Ann
Fort Arbuckle
Fort Armstrong
Fort Barker
Fort Barnwell
Fort Barrancas
Fort Basinger
Fort Blount
Fort Brooke
Fort Butler
Fort Call
Fort Caroline
Fort Carroll
Fort Casey
Fort Chokonikla
Fort Christmas
Fort Clarke
Fort Clinch
Fort Coombs
Fort Cooper
Fort Crévecoeur
Fort Cummings
Fort Dade (Egmont Key)
Fort Dade (Withlacoochee River)
Fort Dallas
Fort De Soto
Fort Defiance
Fort Denaud
Fort Drane
Fort Drum
Fort Duval
Fort Fanning
Fort Floyd
Fort Foster
Fort Fransisco De Pupo
Fort Fraser
Fort Gadsden
Fort Gardiner
Fort Gatlin
Fort George
Fort George Island
Fort Heileman
Fort Houston
Fort Jefferson
Fort Jupiter
Fort King
Fort Kissimmee
Fort Lane
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Maitland
Fort Mason
Fort Matanzas
Fort McRee
Fort Meade
Fort Mellon
Fort Mose
Fort Myers
Fort Ogden
Fort Peyton
Fort Pickens
Fort Picolata
Fort Pierce
Fort Poinsett
Fort Reid
Fort Russell
Fort San Bernardo
Fort San Carlos de Austria
Fort San Lucia
Fort San Marcos de Apalache
Fort San Nicholas
Fort Scott
Fort Shannon
Fort Simmons
Fort St. Andrews
Fort St. Francis de Pupa
Fort Stansbury
Fort Starke
Fort Sullivan
Fort Taylor
Fort T.B. Adams
Fort Thompson
Fort Tonyn
Fort Vinton
Fort Wacahoota
Fort Walker
Fort Walton
Fort Ward
Fort Weadman
Fort White
Fort William
Fort Zachary Taylor
Martello Towers, Key West, Florida
Nicolls’ Outpost
Presidio Isla Santa Rosa Punta de Siguenza
Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola
Presidio Santa Maria de Galve
San Marcos De Apalache
Yellow Bluff Fort
Fort Pulaski, Georgia by the National Park Service
Augusta Arsenal
Fort Barrington
Fort Benjamin Hawkins
Fort Benning
Fort Early
Fort Frederica
Fort Gaines
Fort Gillem
Fort Gordon
Fort Hollingsworth–White House
Fort Hughes
Fort James Jackson
Fort King George
Fort McAllister
Fort McIntosh
Fort McPherson
Fort Morris
Fort Morris Historic Site
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort Perry
Fort Pulaski
Fort Scott
Fort St. Andrews
Fort Stewart
Fort Walker
Fort Boise
Apple River Fort
Fort Armstrong
Fort Beggs
Fort de Chartres
Fort Crèvecoeur
Fort Dearborn
Fort Defiance
Fort Johnson
Fort Lamotte
Fort Massac
Fort Dodge (1851-53)
Custer House at Fort Dodge, Kansas. Click to see photo gallery.
Camp Ewing
Cantonment Martin
Fort Atkinson
Fort Aubrey
Fort Bain
Fort Belmont
Fort Blair (Baxter)
Fort Brooks
Fort Clifton
Fort de Cavagnial
Fort Dodge
Fort Downer
Fort Hamilton
Fort Harker
Fort Hays
Fort Henning
Fort Insley
Fort Jewell
Fort Kanses
Fort Lane
Fort Larned
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Lincoln
Fort Mann
Fort Montgomery (Greenwood County)
Fort Montgomery (Linn County)
Fort Monument
Fort Riley
Fort Saunders
Fort Scott
Fort Titus
Fort Wakarusa
Fort Wallace
Fort Zarah
Battery Steele
Fort Allen
Fort Baldwin
Fort Edgecomb
Fort Foster
Fort George (Brunswick)
Fort George (Castine)
Fort Gorges
Fort Halifax
Fort Kent
Fort Knox
Fort Levett
Fort Loyal
Fort Lyon
Fort Mary
Fort McClary
Fort McKinley
Fort Menaskoux
Fort O’Brien
Fort Pentagouet
Fort Point
Fort Popham
Fort Pownall
Fort Preble
Fort Richmond
Fort Scammell
Fort St. George
Fort Sullivan
Fort Sumner
Fort Western
Fort William Henry
Fort Williams
Forts of Casco Bay
Hancock Barracks
Harbor Defenses of Portland
Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth
Norridgewock
Fort Warren, Massachusetts by Doc Searls, Flickr
Acushnet Fort
East Point Military Reservation
Eastern Point Fort
Fort Andrew
Fort Andrews
Fort Banks
Fort Dawes
Fort Defiance
Fort Devens
Fort Duvall
Fort Glover
Fort Heath
Fort Independence
Fort Juniper
Fort Lee
Fort Miller
Fort Nichols
Fort Philip
Fort Phoenix
Fort Pickering
Fort Revere
Fort Rodman
Fort Ruckman
Fort at Salisbury Point
Fort Sewall
Fort Standish
Fort Strong
Fort Taber
Fort Warren
Fort Washington
Fort Winthrop
Fourth Cliff Military Reservation
Harbor Defenses of Boston
Harbor Defenses of New Bedford
Huguenot Fort
Russell Garrison
Fort Snelling (Fort Saint Anthony)
Fort D, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Fort Davidson
Fort Hovey (Curtis)
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Orleans
Fort Osage (Clark)
Fort Zumwalt
Jefferson Barracks
Joseph Robideaux’ Trading Post
Liberty Arsenal
St. Louis Arsenal
Old Fort Benton, Montana by John Ford Clymer, 1967.
Cantonment Jordan
Cantonment Wright
Fort Alexander
Fort Assiniboine #1
Fort Assinniboine
Fort Belknap
Fort Benton
Fort Browning
Fort Campbell
Fort Carroll
Fort Cass
Fort Chardon
Fort Claggett (Camp Cooke)
Fort Connah
Fort Conrad
Fort Copelin
Fort Cotton
Fort Custer
Fort Dauphin
Fort Ellis
Fort Fizzle
Fort Fox & Livingston
Fort Galpin
Fort Gilbert
Fort William Henry Harrison
Fort Hawley
Fort Henry
Fort Howes
Fort Jackson
Fort Janeaux
Fort Keogh
Fort LaBarge
Fort Lewis
Fort Logan
Fort Maginnis
Fort McKenzie
Fort Missoula
Fort Owen
Fort Parker
Fort Pease
Fort Peck
Fort Piegan
Fort Sarpy
Fort Sarpy II
Fort Shaw
Fort C.F. Smith
Fort Van Buren
Fort William
Fort Yellowstone
Howe’s House
Judith Landing
Kootenai Post
Lewis and Clark Fort
Reed’s Fort
Saleesh House
Fort Omaha, Nebraska Building by Kathy Weiser-Alexander
Camp Sheridan
Fontenelle’s Post
Fort Atkinson
Fort Calhoun
Fort Crook
Fort Hartsuff
Fort John
Fort Kearny
Fort Lisa
Fort McPherson
Camp McGarry
Fort Churchill
Fort Halleck
Fort Schellbourne
Fort Constitution, New Hampshire by Alexius Horatius, Wikipedia
Fort Constitution
Fort Dearborn
Fort at Number 4
Fort Stark
Fort Washington
Fort Wentworth
Fort Bascom
Fort Bayard
Fort Burgwin
Fort Craig
Fort Clark
Fort Ransom
Fort Rice
Fort Mandan
Fort Astoria
Fort Clatsop
Fort Columbia
Fort Colville
Fort Dalles/Fort Lee
Fort Dent
Fort Harney
Fort Henrietta
Fort Hoskins
Fort Klamath
Fort Lawton
Fort Lewis
Fort Nez Perce
Fort Nisqually
Fort Okanogan
Fort Stevens
Fort Townsend
Fort Ward
Fort Worden
Fort George Wright
Fort Yamhill
Carnahan’s Blockhouse
Fort Allen – (Carbon County)
Fort Allen – (Westmoreland County)
Fort Antes
Fort Armstrong
Fort Augusta
Fort Bedford
Fort Boone
Fort Bosley
Fort Brady
Fort Crawford
Fort Deshler
Fort Dickinson
Fort Durkee
Fort Duquesne
Fort Freeland
Fort Gaddis
Fort Granville
Fort Halifax
Fort Hand
Fort Hanna’s Town
Fort Horn
Fort Indiantown Gap
Fort Jenkins
Fort Jones
Fort Juniata Crossing
Fort Lafayette
Fort Laughlin
Fort Ligonier
Fort Loudoun
Fort Machault
Fort McClure
Fort McIntosh
Fort Menninger
Fort Mifflin
Fort Muncy
Fort Necessity
Fort Pitt
Fort Presque Isle
Fort Prince George
Fort Reid
Fort Rice
Fort Robert Smalls
Fort Swartz
Fort Venango
Fort Wheeler
Forty Fort
Light’s Fort
Redstone Old Fort
Reed’s Fort
Spark’s Fort
Camp Varnum
Conanicut Battery
Fort Adams
Fort Barton
Fort Burnside
Fort Church
Fort Dumpling
Fort Getty
Fort Greble
Fort Greene
Fort Kearny
Fort Mansfield
Fort Ninigret
Fort Wetherill
Fort Wolcott
Fort Hamilton
Goat Island/Owl’s Nest
Oak’s Inn Military Reservation
Queen’s Fort
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Fort Bennett
Fort Dakota
Fort Hale
Fort James
Fort Kiowa
Fort Lookout
Fort Meade
Fort Pierre Chouteau
Fort Randall
Fort Sisseton
Fort Sully
Fort Thompson
Whetstone Agency
The Alamo
Camp Cooper
Camp Cureton
Camp Holland
Camp Hudson
Camp Verde
Fort Anahuac
Fort Belknap
Fort Bend
Fort Bliss
Fort Brown
Fort Buffalo Springs
Fort Chadbourne
Fort Cibolo
Fort Clark
Fort Colorado
Fort Concho
Fort Crockett
Fort Croghan
Fort Davis
Fort Duncan
Fort Elliott
Fort Esperanza
Fort Ewell
Fort Fisher
Fort Gates
Fort Graham
Fort Grigsby
Fort Griffin
Fort Hancock
Fort Henderson
Fort Hood
Fort Houston (Anderson County)
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Inge
Fort Inglish
Fort Lancaster
Fort Leaton
Fort Lincoln
Fort Lipantitlan
Fort Lyday
Fort Maison Rouge
Fort Martin Scott
Fort Mason
Fort McIntosh
Fort McKavett
Fort Merrill
Fort Milam
Fort Parker
Fort Pena
Fort Phantom Hill
Fort Polk
Fort Quitman
Fort Richardson
Fort Ringgold
Fort D. A. Russell
Fort Sabine
Fort Saint Louis
Fort San Jacinto
Fort Stockton
Fort Stubblefield
Fort Tenoxtitlan
Fort Terán
Fort Travis
Fort Trevino
Fort Worth
Fortin de la Cienega
Jowell Family Fort
Lacy’s Fort
Little River Fort
Moore’s Fort
Presidio de la Bahía del Espíritu Santo
Presidio de la Virgen de los Dolores de los Tejas
Presidio de San Agustín de Ahumada
Presidio de San Antonio de Béjar
Presidion de San Elizario
Presidio de San Xavier de Gigedo
Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahia (Fort Defiance, Fort Goliad)
Presidio de San Saba
Princess Sophia’s Fort
Cove Fort, Utah
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont courtesy Wikipedia
Champlain Arsenal
Chimney Point
Fort Dummer
Fort Ethan Allen
Fort Frederick
Fort Independence
Fort Mott
Fort Ranger
Fort Sainte Anne
Fort Warren
American Camp-English Camp
Fort Columbia
Fort Nisqually
Fort Okanogan
Fort Simcoe
Fort Spokane
Fort Steilacoom
Fort Stevens
Fort Townsend
Fort William
Fort Vancouver
Fort Walla Walla
Fort Ashby
Fort Boreman
Fort Capon
Fort Cocke
Fort Cox
Fort Edwards
Fort Forman
Fort Henry
Fort John Parker
Fort New Salem
Fort Ohio
Fort Pearsall
Fort Randolph
Fort Sellers
Fort Seybert
Fort Thomas Parker
Fort Van Meter
Homer’s Fort
New Creek Blockhouse
Prickett’s Fort
Fort Reno/Fort Connor
Fort Russell
Fort Sanders
Fort Stambaugh
Fort Fred Steele
Fort Washakie (Camp Brown)
Compiled Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated October 2019.
Also See:
Forts & Presidios Photo Gallery
Where are the Kansas forts?
They “were” on page 2 of the article, however, I have edited and made the article all one page for your convenience. Thanks Frank!
where is Michigan?
It appears we haven’t written about any Michigan Forts yet. On the “to do” list for sure.
looks like you skipped NH entirely!
fort constitution/fort william and mary
the fort at #4 in charlestown,NH
Fort Stark
and Maine!
fort knox (the other fort knox!)