Fort Coombs - Franklin Guards

The Franklin Guards, a company of Infantry organized in Apalachicola in 1884 by J. H. Coombs and Fred Betterfield, erected the first building in the city to be used solely as an armory in 1898. Made of simulated brick, it ...

Fort Franklin

Site just west of here. Built in 1787 by U.S. troops under Captain Heart. First American fort in the region and base for protecting northwestern Pennsylvania's early settlements.

Marker is at the intersection of 13th Street (U.S. 322) and Franklin Avenue, ...