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Fort Armistead is in the Hawkins Point section of the city. The fort is named for Major George Armistead (1780–1818, later promoted to Colonel), commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, the British Royal Navy attack in September 1814 in the War of 1812; the battle inspired the writing of the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry" by ...
Fort Armistead Park is the site of a United States Army coastal defense fort which was built from 1897 to 1901, and was active from 1901 to 1920. [17] The park is on the far southeastern coast of Hawkins Point, on the boundary with Anne Arundel County, and features a network of underground tunnels beneath the concrete fort remains.
From 1896 to 1928, it was an Endicott Period Coastal Fort built during the Spanish–American War era along with other outer harbor defenses at Fort Howard on North Point in southeastern Baltimore County and Fort Armistead at Hawkins Point on the Baltimore City-Anne Arundel County Line of 1919.
The Armistead Monument is a bronze statue of Col. George Armistead, by Edward Berge. It is located at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. It was dedicated on September 12, 1914. [1] The inscription reads: (Sculpture, rear of bronze base, proper right:) CAST BY ROMAN BRONZE WORKS NY (Sculpture, rear of bronze base, proper left:) BERGE (Base, front:)
Fort Armistead, open to the public; Fort Carroll, closed to the public; Fort Cumberland, demolished; ... US National Park Service list of parks with forts
Statue of Liberty built on top of fort, national park New York: Fort Gibson: Ellis Island/Oyster Island: New York City: First System, Second System: 1795: 1861: 1892: National park, fort demolished New York: Castle Clinton/Fort Clinton: Battery Park, Manhattan: New York City: Second System: 1809: 1821: 1821: City park New York: Fort Lafayette ...
Fort Armistead was a U.S. Army fort in the Cherokee National Forest near Coker Creek, Tennessee. It was founded in 1832 and was only periodically used in the following years. In 1838, Fort Armistead was re-stationed as part of an effort to forcibly relocate the Cherokee and became part of the Trail of Tears. It was then permanently abandoned ...
Fort McHenry was built on the site of the former Fort Whetstone, which was used to defend Baltimore from 1776 to 1797. Fort Whetstone stood on Whetstone Point in the residential and industrial area of present-day Locust Point in Baltimore, which juts into the opening of Baltimore Harbor between the basin at the present-day Inner Harbor and Northwest branch on the north side and the Middle and ...