Fort Vernon

Fort Vernon was a military structure designed to facilitate the slave trade. It was built by the Royal African Company in 1742 near Prampram, a town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It was built out of cheap materials – rough stones and swish. The fort was later destroyed by Danish before 1783. Then it was rebuilt by the British in 1806, but soon started to collapse being abandoned in about 1816. It was re-occupied by the British in 1831 but was again abandoned in 1844. It subsequently became ruins.