Fort Jefferson

Construction on the Gibraltar of the Gulf, Fort Jefferson, began in 1846 at the western end of the Florida Keys to protect the Florida Straits. The largest of all masonry forts in the Western Hemisphere, construction on the fort continued ...

Fort Jefferson

Built by the Army of

General Arthur St. Clair

in October 1791

and used as a military post

during the campaigns against

the North-Western Indian tribes

MCMVII

Marker can be reached from Weavers-Fort Jefferson Road 0.1 miles west of Ohio ...

Fort Jefferson Site / Indian Massacre

(North Side):Fort Jefferson Site

Built in 1780 by George Rogers Clark as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia, later pursued by and named for Gov. Thomas Jefferson. The fort was to protect US claim ...

Lewis & Clark at Old Fort Jefferson

Long before Lewis and Clark stopped near Wickliffe in western Kentucky on their outbound trip to the west, Fort Jefferson had been built in 1780-81 by George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War as an outpost against British-led Indian attacks. ...

Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

(North Side):Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

Lewis and Clark and a party of eight men visited the site of Fort Jefferson on Nov. 18, 1803, while on their epic 1803-1806 journey to the Pacific. Fort est. in 1780 by ...

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson (also known as Camp Crittenden) was the second of two Union Army posts established in Ballard County in September 1861, following the Confederate occupation of Columbus. Fort Jefferson was first established during the American Revolution by George Rogers ...

Fort Jefferson: A Link in a Chain

Fort Jefferson was just a link in a chain of forts stretching north from Fort Washington (Cincinnati) to Fort Deposit (Waterville).

During the Indian War of 1790-1795, the United States felt it necessary to build forts in contested territory. Fort Jefferson ...