Historic forts in Florida and Georgia are great additions to any sort of trip you're planning. From learning about the Civil War to visiting Spanish fortresses, this is a great way to bring ...

Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. South of the Florida peninsula, 70 miles west of the Florida Keys, is a cluster of small coral islands called the Dry Tortugas.

Fort Lane, located on Lake Harney on the eastern side of what is now Seminole County, was the first of these new forts. Until Florida became a state in 1845, what are now Orange and Seminole ...

Fort Taylor near the St. Johns River at what today is the Orange-Osceola county line took its name to honor Zachary Taylor, the future president who took command in Florida after Gen. Thomas S. Jesup.