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Defenses of Washington Historical Markers

Collection of markers detailing the wartime fortifications around Washington, D.C.
 
By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 22, 2017
Fort Bunker Hill Sign
1 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Brookland — Fort Bunker Hill — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
2 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Brookland — Fort Bunker Hill —
3 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Fort Totten — Fort Totten — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
4 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Fort Totten — Fort Totten —
5 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mahaning Heights — 15 — "We're Not Forgotten" — A Self-Reliant People — Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail —
6 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mahaning Heights — Fort Mahan — Civil War Defenses of Washington —
7 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, American University Park — 9 — And the Church Goes on — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
8 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, American University Park — Fort Bayard —
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9 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — 16 — “Get Down You Fool” — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
10 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — 17 — Aunt Betty's Story — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
11 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Fort Stevens —
12 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Fort Stevens — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed
13 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Fort Stevens — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
14 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Lincoln Under Fire at Fort Stevens —
15 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Scale Model of Fort Stevens —
16 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Kent — Battery Kemble — One of the Civil War Defenses of Washington —
17 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Kent — Battery Kemble Park — Defense of Washington —
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18 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Manor Park — Fort Slocum — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
19 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort De Russy — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
20 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort DeRussy —
21 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort DeRussy — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
22 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — 98th Pennsylvania Infantry —
23 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Battleground National Cemetery — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
24 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — 13 — Battleground National Cemetery — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
25 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Company K, 150th Ohio National Guard Infantry —
26 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Roll Call — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
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27 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — The 122nd New York Volunteer Infantry —
28 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — The 25th New York Cavalry —
29 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Tenleytown, D.C. — Country Village to City Neighborhood —
30 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
31 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
32 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
33 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — 5 — Fort Reno — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
34 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — 6 — Reno City — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
35 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Reservoir / Reno City — Tenleytown, DC — Country Village to City Neighborhood —
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36 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Tennally's Town: My, How You've Grown — ©2017, Jarrett Ferrier — Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Progra —
37 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — The Civil War Defenses of Washington — Fort Reno —
38 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Anacostia — Fort Stanton — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 – 1865 —
39 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Benning Ridge — Fort Chaplin — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
40 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Buena Vista — 9 — A Museum for the Community — An East-of-the-River View — Anacostia Heritage Trail —
41 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Congress Heights — Defending the Capital — Civil War Defenses of Washington — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
42 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Congress Heights — Fort Carroll — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
43 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Davis — Fort Davis — Civil War Defenses of Washington —
44 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Davis — Fort Davis — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 - 1865 —
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45 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Dupont — Fort DuPont — Civil War Defenses of Washington —
46 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Dupont — Fort DuPont — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 - 1865 —
47 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Woodland — Battery Ricketts — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
48 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Bellevue — Defending the Capital — Fort Greble — Civil War Defenses of Washington —
49 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Bellevue — Fort Greble — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 — Reported permanently removed
50 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Abraham Lincoln —
51 ► Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Artist's Conception of Battery Bailey, Circa 1862 —
52 ► Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Battery Bailey —
53 ► Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Col. Guilford Dudley Bailey — The Fallen Union Officer for Whom the Battery Was Named —
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54 ► Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Fort Sumner —
55 ► Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — What is a Battery? —
56 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Fort Lincoln —
57 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Fort Lincoln —
58 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Historic Fort Lincoln —
59 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery —
60 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — 15-inch Rodman Smoothbore — Reported permanently removed
61 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Fort Foote — Protecting the Nation’s Capital — Reported permanently removed
62 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Fort Washington Park —
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63 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — King's Depression Carriage — Reported permanently removed
64 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Northwest Bastion — Reported permanently removed
65 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — The Defenses of Washington — Reported permanently removed
66 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Old Town — Battery Rodgers —
67 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Old Town — The Civil War and Battery Rodgers —
68 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — "The Fort" and "Seminary" Community — Civil War to Civil Rights — City of Alexandria, est. 1749 —
69 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — African Americans and the Civil War — Fleeing, Fighting and Working for Freedom — City of Alexandria, est. 1749 —
70 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Bombproof — Reported permanently removed
71 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Bombproof — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
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72 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Entrance Gate to Fort Ward — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
73 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Entrance Gate to Fort Ward / Officers' Hut — Reported permanently removed
74 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward — 1861-1865 — Reported permanently removed
75 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward — 1861-1865 — Reported permanently removed
76 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward —
77 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward — 1861 - 1865 Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
78 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Williams —
79 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Worth —
80 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — From Fort to Community — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
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81 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Northwest Bastion — Reported permanently removed
82 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Northwest Bastion — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
83 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Outlying Gun Battery — City of Alexandria, Virginia — Reported permanently removed
84 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Outlying Gun Battery — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
85 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Powder Magazine and Filling Room — Reported permanently removed
86 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Rifle Trench — City of Alexandria, Virginia — Reported permanently removed
87 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Rifle Trench — Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
88 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Southwest Bastion — City of Alexandria, Virginia — Reported permanently removed
89 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Welcome to Historic Fort Ward Park — City of Alexandria, Virginia —
90 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Southwest Quadrant — Alexandria National Cemetery —
91 ► Virginia, Alexandria, Taylor Run — Fort Ellsworth —
92 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Arlington Ridge — 6 — Fort Scott —
93 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Army Navy Country Club — 16 — Fort Richardson — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
94 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Columbia Heights — Fort Richardson —
95 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Columbia Heights — The Fort —
96 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Columbia Heights — The Soldiers —
97 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Court House — 13 — Fort Cass — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
98 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Court House — 11 — Fort Woodbury — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
99 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — A Historic Junction — Reported permanently removed
100 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — Arlington Transformed by War —

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