Fort Stanton
Ruins · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1861
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.860, -76.977
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Abandoned after the war, the site of the fort was planned to be part of a grand "Fort Circle" park system encircling the city of Washington.
History
Fort Stanton was a Civil War-era fortification constructed in the hills above Anacostia in the District of Columbia, USA, and was intended to prevent Confederate artillery from threatening the Washington Navy Yard. It also guarded the approach to the bridge that connected Anacostia with Washington. Built in 1861, the fort was expanded throughout the war and was joined by two subsidiary forts: Fort Ricketts and Fort Snyder. Following the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, it was dismantled and the land returned to its original owner. It never saw combat. Abandoned after the war, the site of the fort was planned to be part of a grand "Fort Circle" park system encircling the city of Washington.