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Fort Ward is the best preserved of the system of Union forts and batteries built to protect Washington, DC during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Fort Ward Museum interprets the site's history and offers exhibits on Civil War topics, education and interpretive programs, tours, lecture and video ...
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Alexandria, VA - Fort Ward Museum - Plan Your Visit
Museum exhibit areas are wheel-chair accessible. Handicapped parking is available in the Museum lot. For visitors who are unable to tour the historic fort, an interpretive video, Fort Ward and the Defenses of Washington, DC: Silent Guardians of the Capital City is shown inside the Museum. The Fort W...
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Fort Ward Museum and Park in Alexandria, VA
At the fort itself, you'll see the gate featuring cannonballs and other decorative and ceremonial symbols, as well as the reconstructed Officers' Hut where high-ranking officers lived. You'll also see underground bombproof shelters, a parade area for marching and training, and more. The ...
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Fort Ward Museum and Park, Alexandria, VA : Reviews of Fort Ward Museum and Park - Yahoo! Travel
Fort Ward was a crucial part of the wide defensive system built around Washington during the Civil War. The fort stands in the swath of territory that Union troop...
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Fort Ward Museum - Alexandria, VA 22304
In addition to the museum at Fort Ward there is also the park. And it is a nifty little park. There are rifle trenches and bombproofs and historical stuff like that going on. Then there are practical things too, like a 0.6 mile loop paved looped that goes around the park that sees a decent amount of...
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Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site - Reviews and Ratings of Sights in Alexandria - New York Times Travel
If you're a Civil War buff, you will enjoy taking a short drive from Old Town to this museum in a 45-acre city park on the site of one of the chain of Union forts erected to protect Washington, D.C. (yes, the Union occupied Alexandria during the war). It's the best preserved of the surviving forts a...
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Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site: Museums, Galleries, Monuments and Memorials in Alexandria, VA on washingtonpost.com's City Guide
Named for Commander James Harmon Ward, the first naval officer killed in the war, Fort Ward was a model of 19th-century engineering, its 36 guns perched over 818 yards of 22- to 25-foot-high walls surrounded by wide dry moats dug over four years by soldiers itching to fight battles instead of dig di...
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Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site - Museums and Exhibits - Alexandria, VA - Grandparents.com
At the Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site in Old Town Alexandria, costumed interpreters bring history to life with interactive programs that tell the story of the Civil War at the actual site of a Union fort built to protect Washington, D.C. from 1861 to 1865. The museum offers exhibits, education a...
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