South — Fort filing

Forts with a file in Florida

5 Florida dossiers cover ground that already gave its account — muster rolls, casualty lists, after-action reports — and then kept filing. Figures on the field, sounds in the works, presences attributed to documented deaths. The archive keeps the two records in separate columns and notes where witnesses claim they meet.

5 dossiers0 counties covered80% open to visitorsFort Zachary Taylor — deepest file

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Fort Zachary Taylor

Key West, Florida

The 1866 fort that held the Union at the Confederacy’s edge.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Castillo de San Marcos

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1672 coquina fortress—the oldest masonry fort in the U.S.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Matanzas

St. Augustine, Florida

1742 coquina fort guarding the inlet where 245 Frenchmen were massacred.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Clinch

Fernandina Beach, Florida

1847 Third System fort guarding the Amelia River—never finished, never tested.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort East Martello

Key West, Florida

Fort associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

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