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Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Michilimackinac, also called Colonial Michilimackinac, was a French then British fort and fur-trade center at Mackinaw City, Michigan, built 1715, captured 1763, moved to Mackinac Island 1781, now reconstructed and excavated annually.
Fort Mims massacre
The Fort Mims massacre was the August 30, 1813 attack in which about 700 Red Stick Creek warriors stormed a fort near Mobile, Alabama, killing at least 250 people.
Fort Minor
Fort Minor is Mike Shinoda's hip-hop side project (founded 2004, Los Angeles). Its one album, The Rising Tied (2005), went platinum; singles Where'd You Go hit No. 4 and Remember the Name went 4x platinum.
Fort Monroe National Monument
Fort Monroe National Monument, known as Freedom's Fortress, is a National Park Service unit in Hampton, Virginia, proclaimed in 2011 to preserve the moated fort where the 1861 Contraband Decision freed thousands of enslaved people.
Fort Moore
Fort Moore was the 2023-2025 name of the Army's Georgia infantry and armor training post (Fort Benning), honoring Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore before reverting to Fort Benning for Cpl. Fred G. Benning.
Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
Fort Myers Mighty Mussels, formerly the Fort Myers Miracle, are a Florida State League Single-A team, Minnesota Twins affiliate at Hammond Stadium since 1992; rebranded from Miracle in December 2019; championships 2014 and 2018.
Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida: Gulf Coast city and Lee County seat on the Caloosahatchee River; 2020 population 86,395, 2025 estimate 101,581; home of the Edison-Ford Winter Estates and Boston Red Sox spring training.
Fort Ord
Fort Ord was a U.S. Army post near Monterey, California, established 1917, closed 1994 after training about 1.5 million soldiers; now a Superfund site and the location of CSUMB, Fort Ord Dunes State Park, and Fort Ord National Monument.
Fort Peck Dam
Fort Peck Dam is a large earthen dam on the upper Missouri River in northeastern Montana, built from 1933 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1940.
Fort Pickens
Fort Pickens, a Third System masonry fort on Santa Rosa Island, Florida (1829–1834), defended Pensacola Bay, stayed Union-held through the Civil War, later held Geronimo, and is now in Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Fort Pierce, Florida
Fort Pierce, Florida (the Sunrise City), county seat of St. Lucie County on the Treasure Coast; incorporated 1901, named for an 1838 Seminole War fort; 2020 population 47,297, deepwater port, Indian River Lagoon setting.
Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent: early 19th-century bastioned fort defending Chatham Dockyard, begun 1805, named for William Pitt; later a major Army hospital and now a scheduled monument under a girls' grammar school.
Fort Pitt Bridge
The Fort Pitt Bridge is a double-decked steel tied arch bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened in 1959 to carry Interstates 279 and 376 across the Monongahela River into downtown.
Fort Point National Historic Site
Fort Point National Historic Site, also called the Fort at Fort Point, is a Third System brick seacoast fort in San Francisco built 1853-1861, the only such fort west of the Mississippi, garrisoned in the Civil War and preserved beneath the Golden Gate Bridge since 1970.
Fort Pulaski
Fort Pulaski is a masonry coastal fortification on Cockspur Island near Savannah, Georgia, built 1829 to 1847, best known for the Union rifled-artillery bombardment of April 1862.
Fort Randall Dam
Fort Randall Dam is an earthen dam on the Missouri River near Pickstown, South Dakota, impounding Lake Francis Case and generating 320 megawatts of hydroelectric power.
Fort Riley
Fort Riley is a U.S. Army installation in the Kansas Flint Hills, established 1852-1853 as Camp Center and renamed for Maj. Gen. Bennett Riley; home of the 1st Infantry Division since 1955.
Fort Robinson Breakout
The Fort Robinson Breakout, also known as the Fort Robinson Massacre, was the January 1879 escape of Northern Cheyenne from confinement at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
Fort Ross, California
Fort Ross, also known as Krepost Ross, is a former Russian-American Company settlement on the Northern California coast, founded in 1812 and now a state historic park.
Fort Rouge Curling Club
The Fort Rouge Curling Club is a six-sheet curling club in Winnipeg, founded in 1919, whose rinks won the Brier in 1952, 1956, and 1972.
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas, part of Joint Base San Antonio; founded 1845, birthplace of military aviation, and home of the Army Medical Department's largest medical training campus.
Fort Santiago
Fort Santiago (Fuerte de Santiago) is a Spanish colonial fortress at the Pasig River mouth in Intramuros, Manila, built from 1571, rebuilt in stone 1589–1592, prison of Jose Rizal, WWII-damaged, now a National Shrine of Freedom.
Fort Shafter
Fort Shafter is the oldest U.S. Army installation in Hawaii, on Oahu near Honolulu, established 1907 and named for Maj. Gen. William R. Shafter. It hosts Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific, IMCOM-Pacific, and the historic Palm Circle and Richardson Hall.
Fort Shalmaneser
Fort Shalmaneser, also known as É-kar-Shalmaneser, is the royal arsenal or review palace at Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq, built by Shalmaneser III and destroyed in 612 BC.
Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Fort Sheridan, Illinois: former U.S. Army post (1887-1993) on Lake Michigan in Lake County, 25 miles north of Chicago, named for General Philip Sheridan; Holabird & Roche buildings, closed under BRAC 1988, now a residential community and forest preserve.
Fort Sill
Fort Sill is a U.S. Army installation in Lawton, Oklahoma, founded in 1869 and home of the Fires Center of Excellence, training Field Artillery, Air Defense Artillery, and Basic Combat Training soldiers, with a regional economic footprint of about 51,800 jobs.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas: the state's third-largest city (90,855 in 2025) at the Arkansas-Poteau river confluence, home of two 19th-century frontier forts, Judge Parker's federal court, and the Fort Smith National Historic Site.
Fort Snelling
Fort Snelling is a former US Army fort built 1820–1825 at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, now restored as a Minnesota Historical Society museum.
Fort Snelling State Park
Fort Snelling State Park: Minnesota state park at the Mississippi-Minnesota river confluence, opened 1962, over 400,000 annual visitors, 18 miles hiking trails, no camping, managed by Minnesota DNR.
Fort St. John, British Columbia
Fort St. John, British Columbia: the "Energetic City," a Peace River regional hub of 21,465 (2021), oldest non-First Nations settlement on the BC mainland, oil-and-gas and agricultural center on the Alaska Highway.