The Ken Edmonds Memorial Heritage Trail

The Ken Edmonds Memorial Heritage Trail. Preserving Our Colonial Heritage. , This walking trail, opened on June 25, 2011, is dedicated to the life and memory of Kenneth Edmonds, a principal founding member and first president of The Fort Edwards Foundation in 1995. Ken, a retired businessman, artist, neighbor and friend, held a strong vision of what Fort Edwards, as a site, could grow to be. Each Foundation improvement brings us closer to fulfilling Ken's dream., In the early 1990s, recognizing the threat to the place where "an old fort" had stood, Ken was instrumental in founding and leading a grass-roots coalition, opposing a planned development on the site of a French and Indian War fort. He fought to preserve the location as having historical merits and significance. The coalition became The Fort Edwards Foundation, Inc., in 1995. Ken's leadership at the outset began a long, fruitful association with the Foundation., The Foundation envisions this trail as an on-going project, eventually extending east to the bank of the Cacapon River, north along the river, curving back past an overlook at the site of the original fort, and returning a determined walker to the Visitor Center near the Kitchen Garden. This rebuilt bridge and the hard-packed composition of the trail was designed to accommodate our friends with disabilities who wish to use the trail., Enjoy your walk, whether to the stockade or beyond. Please stay on the stone path and viewing areas, for there may be uneven ground and there is the threat of insects and other Mother Nature afflictions, including the possibility of snakes. Be sure to otur the Visitor Center where information about the fort and its history is provided.