Fort Johnson-- Part 4: Where Is It?

From Warsaw, Illinois, Park District.

Fort Johnson was hastily built in 1814 and was a rough stockade of rounded logs with blockhouses.  But in Autumn 1814 it was burned when the fort was abandoned by the Army when it retreated further south to an installation near Elsberry, Missouri.

Fort Johnson was always known to exist on the bluff somewhere near present-day Mulberry Street in Warsaw, but the exact site is in question.

However, persistent research by Joe Bartholomew and others have discovered the location through discoveries and artifacts found at the site.

--Brock-Perry