Fortress
Fort Stevens
🇺🇸 United States · 19th century
Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor Isaac I. Stevens. The fort was an active military reservation from 1863–1947. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today the site is an Oregon state park just northwest of Warrenton.
Text adapted from “Fort Stevens (Oregon)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Stevens ranks #1,966 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #50 of the 77 mapped in United States. Founded 1863, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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