From the April 25, 2012, Military Times "Possible remains of Army fort found at USNA" by Tina Reed.
There is a giant slab of marble in the middle of the firing range at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is a piece of a fort long buried. Records show Fort Madison was built of 100,000 bricks and likely had a dry moat around it.
Today, it is completely flattened with just that slab of marble to show its former existence. Nearby Fort Severn is much-better known even though today it is beneath a wing of Bancroft Hall of the Academy.
Fort Madison was built at the request of President Thomas Jefferson and among 62 forts built along the US Atlantic coast between Maine and Florida.
It was razed in the 1930s for the firing range.
So, That's What Happened to It. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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