List of forts in Florida

Updated on Sep 27, 2024

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There are several historical forts in the U.S. state of Florida. De Quesada states that there have been more than 300 "camps, batteries, forts and redoubts" in Florida, since European settlement began. More than 80 "blockhouses, forts, camps and stockades" were used at one time or another in Florida, during the Seminole Wars. Most forts were constructed from earth or wood, or both; some incorporate brick or stone. Many were intended to be used for only a short period, and most have effectively disappeared. In some cases, a series of forts with different names were built on or close to the same place.

List of forts

Battery San Antonio, Pensacola

Cantonment Clinch, Pensacola

Castillo de San Marcos (also Fort Marion and Fort St. Mark, now a U.S. National Monument)

Fort Alabama

Fort Ann

Fort Annuttgeliea

Fort Arbuckle

Fort Armstrong

Fort Barker

Fort Barrancas (also Fort San Carlos de Barrancas)

Fort Basinger

Fort Blount

Fort Brooke

Fort Butler

Fort Caroline

Fort Carroll

Fort Casey

Fort Center

Fort Chokonikla (also Fort Chokkonickla and Fort Chokhonikla, now part of Paynes Creek Historic State Park)

Fort Christmas – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the Saint Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War.

Fort Clarke, in present-day Gainesville, Second Seminole War

Fort Clinch

Fort Coombs

Fort Cooper

Fort Crévecoeur (French), First Spanish Period

Fort Cross, on Cape Sable, Third Seminole War

Fort Cummings

Fort Dade (Withlacoochee River), Second Seminole War

Fort Dade (Egmont Key), Spanish–American War

Fort Dallas

Fort De Soto

Fort Defiance

Fort Denaud

Fort Diego

Fort Drane

Fort Drum

Fort Dulany

Fort Duncan McRee (also Addison Blockhouse), in Tomoka State Park

Fort Fannin

Fort Foster

Fort Fraser

Fort Gadsden

Fort Gardiner

Fort Gatlin

Fort George

Fort Green

Fort Harlee

Fort Hartsuff

Fort Harvie

Fort Heileman

Fort Homer W. Hesterly

Fort Hooker

Fort Houston, in Tallahassee, Civil War

Fort Jefferson

Fort Juniper

Fort Keais

Fort King

Fort Kissimmee

Fort Lane – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the Saint Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War.

Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lloyd

Fort Lonesome

Fort Maitland

Fort Mason

Fort Matanzas

Fort McCoy (formerly Fort MacKay)

Fort McRee

Fort Meade

Fort Mellon – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the Saint Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War.

Fort Mitchell

Fort Mose

Fort Myakka

Fort Myers

Fort Ogden

Fort Peyton

Fort Pickens

Fort Picolata

Fort Pierce

Fort Poinsett, on Cape Sable, Second Seminole War

Fort Reid

Fort Russell, on Key Biscayne, Second Seminole War

Fort St. Andrews

Fort St. Francis de Pupa

Fort San Carlos, Fernandina Beach, Second Spanish rule

Fort San Lucia

Fort San Luis de Apalachee

Fort San Marcos de Apalache (also Fort St. Marks)

Fort San Nicholas

Fort Scott

Fort Simmons

Fort Stansbury

Fort Starke

Fort Sullivan

Fort Taylor – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the Saint Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War. This should not be confused with Fort Zachary Taylor (see below), built in Key West, Florida, approximately 280 miles to the Southwest of this Fort Taylor's location. The future President was a Colonel during the Second Seminole War and served in the Florida campaigns at the same time this Fort Taylor was in active operation.

Fort T.B. Adams

Fort Thompson

Fort Tonyn

Fort Vinton

Fort Wacahoota

Fort Walker (also Fort Hogtown), in present-day Gainesville, Second Seminole War

Fort Walton

Fort Ward

Fort Weadman

Fort White

Fort William

Fort Zachary Taylor (also Fort Taylor) – Fort Zachary Taylor should not be confused with the original Florida "Fort Taylor" – entry above, which was built during the Second Seminole War as one of a string of four small, short-lived Forts along the Saint John's River, approximately 280 miles to the Northeast of Key West, Florida. During the Second Seminole War (1835 – 1842) future President Zachary Taylor – for whom this Key West, Florida fort was named – was a Colonel in the US Army, leading troops in the field.

Martello towers, Key West, Florida

Fort East Martello

West Martello Tower

Presidio Santa Maria de Galve, Pensacola

Yellow Bluff Fort

References

List of forts in Florida Wikipedia

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