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The U.S. Navy found the fort to be attractive after tests had shown that it was an outstanding location to eavesdrop on radio communication transmitted from the Far East, chiefly Japan. In August 1939, the U.S. Navy relocated the Astoria, Oregon, intercept site to Fort Ward. This was the beginning of the development of Fort Ward as a top-secret ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Fort Ward (Washington) Fort Whitman; Fort Worden This page was ...
A view of Fort Ward Park. Fort Ward Park is park located along Rich Passage on the southern end of Bainbridge Island in Washington. Fort Ward Park is part of the Bainbridge Island Metro Park and Recreation District, on land which the former military base, Fort Ward, was located. [1] It was a state park from 1960 to 2011 but is now locally managed.
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Fort Ward may refer to several former military installations in the United States including: Fort Ward (Florida) Fort Ward (Virginia) Fort Ward (Washington) Fort Ward may also refer to: Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, Washington, a town; Fort Ward Park, a former state park in Bainbridge Island, Washington, that came under municipal control in 2011
Fort Walla Walla; Fort Ward (Washington) This page was last edited on 1 June 2019, at 09:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Map of Civil War forts near Alexandria, showing Fort Ward (ca. September 1861) Washington D.C. Fortifications map (1865) Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and ...
Fort Worden was an active United States Army base from 1902 to 1953. Most of it was purchased by the Port of Port Townsend in 1956 and sold to the State of Washington in 1957 to house a juvenile detention facility (the Port retained ownership of the beach from the entrance of the Fort to approximately the pier).