National Historic Landmark-Fort Adams

National Historic Landmark- Fort Adams

Based on French military design and completed in 1857, Fort Adams is an outstanding example of American military engineering and technology.

It was designed by Simon Bernard, and Joseph G. Totten supervised its construction.

Courtesy National Park ...

Fort Adams Foundation

To honor the members of

the Fort Adams Foundation

May 4, 1976

Governor Philip W. Noel

Lt. Governor J. Joseph Garrahy

Director Dennis J. Murphy, Jr.

George E. Howarth, 1st Commandant

Sen. Erich A. O’D. Taylor, President

Sen. Robert J. McKenna

Rep. James F. Mahoney

Councilman Robert O. Beattie

Antoinette F. ...

The Irish Connection to Fort Adams

Problem . . . Insufficient workforce to build a Fortress.

The solution would come from Ireland. Five hundred families came to not only escape famine and economic hardship, but here they obtained the freedoms they so longed for in their homeland.

Fort ...

Fort Adams

History you can Touch

Explore the casemates where the big guns once roared.

Discover how 8 soldiers worked together to load and fire each cannon.

Step into the quarters where the soldiers and their families lived.

Ascend to the scenic overlook for a breathtaking ...

Fort Adams

History you can Touch

Explore the casemates where the big guns once roared.

Discover how 8 soldiers worked together to load and fire each cannon.

Step into the quarters where the soldiers and their families lived.

Ascend to the scenic overlook for a breathtaking ...

Fort Adams

History you can Touch

Explore the casemates where the big guns once roared.

Discover how 8 soldiers worked together to load and fire each cannon.

Step into the quarters where the soldiers and their families lived.

Ascend to the scenic overlook for a breathtaking ...

Life in Fort Adams

I did not have far or long to look, because, being the junior officer of the garrison I could displace no other, and besides, there was but one casemate available for me to choose from . . . A good ...