| Show FAMOUS FORTS IN U US S HISTORY by ELMO SCOTT WATSON A monument of folly much has ha been written about the abandoned farms of new england but her abandoned tort forts are not eo so mell dl known of all of these obsolete strongholds 11 none 0 n e in more interesting than bort tort knox on the narrows pf p the penobscot river at I 1 ro maine blaine I 1 blits hie tort which aich derived its it name from the fact that it has built on lead lond once ow as ned by henry knox tie tt e boston bookseller book eller bo ho became mush ash ington e blet of artillery in the llev alution and the fret first sec of 0 war ar for the united state states was w began in 1 the early to fott dria to protect the ship building and of the ecot scot which As then at if its height 1 I ork had progressed wd far enough at the outbreak of the civil war ar to en able the IN ar at department to use fort knox hoax ae as a training school for many of the artillery officers who served in the union aricy this wai as the nearest that fort knox ever came come lo 10 a war record however ho ei er for in 1860 after construction had been in progress pro tre fir 2 20 26 yeam yea work on it wai wait abandoned coating about a million nill llon dollan dollars it stands a monument of human folly writes one historian ht orian u ibe recent went ad vance in the a elenc of war li Is such that fart knox knor be scarcely more effective in lime time of danier danger chali an ancient feudal cattle castle of the middle agea llon ment of folly though fort knox may be it la Is alee also a monument to the day days nhen hen masonry wax was a fine art huge white slabs lab of gran ite ile quarried from mount inaldo aldo a few miles north and floated down the arher in scows are set in its sails edge on edge with beautiful precision and a great circular staircase of boll gilld d plow pieces of it granite Is in the c crowning to w nin 9 piece of workmanship bear N ear t the he shore batteries can still be see been I 1 the he brick biens where the tho 42 pound can non balls bulls nere heated but nearly all ot of the artillery in the fort dur ing the ahll war hai has been removed to adorn park ar armories morles and other public places in new ew Ln lanil designed to be the inert fluent fortress for tre on tl e k t bantli coast I 1 ort art knox Is now ard it Is I 1 one of the several forte torts mate has ha been hy by contress con srena a altlan recent seare lears s eare al at though it lack lacks the tack lack droun I 1 of many other forck fort there nrc ure few which arc are as picturesque BJ as thia this grim old monument of folla which stamis stands duarl oer mer nn an unfulfilled hope on the bank of the athine of amer it t the pent genbi ba ot river 1 C 1111 1934 NO abion the reason that spools play the instent of a saxophone 1 Is because some one take a abc tact t at them alons along with new ew In Ins glands land fish balls baled baked beans and blown biown bread the duck dinner seema seems to bo be hero hern to stay |
