Fort Knox State Historic Site

Fort Knox Virtual Field Trip Site

Come take a visit inside America’s first Fort Knox

Overview

Fort Knox State Historic Site is a park located in Prospect, Maine. Here the Friends of Fort Knox both manages and preserves the country’s first Fort Knox. This website is designed to provide a narrated video tour of different locations found within the fort’s walls.

Explore The Fort

Videos

Learn about the origins of how the Penobscot River played a part in the building of Fort Knox

Learn about the border dispute that helped lead to the construction of Fort Knox

Learn about the different forts that, like Fort Knox, were built in the 1800s to defend the east coast of the United States

Take a look inside the fort’s parade ground

Learn about the small but deadly flank howitzers that safeguard the fort

Learn about the 10 inch Rodman cannon at Fort Knox and the destructive ammunition it fired

Learn about how the officers would’ve lived at Fort Knox

Find out how bread was baked in the fort’s giant bake oven

Learn about the living quarters for the enlisted men at Fort Knox

Learn about why the food has food storage bins located inside the parade ground

Learn how to carefully walk through one of the fort’s powder magazines

Learn about how Two Step Alley would help the soldiers to defend the fort from being attacked from behind

Learn about Long Alley and how that also helped to defend Fort Knox from attacks from behind

Take in the view of Fort Knox from its roof and see how its location was important to its defense.

Take in this view of Battery A and learn about how it contributed to the fort’s defense

Learn about the 15 inch Rodman cannon and the destructive fire power it possessed

Learn more about how the cannons at Fort Knox were used in this second video about the 15 inch Rodman cannon

Learn about how soldiers used to heat up cannonballs using a hot shot furnace

Learn about Battery B, the other shoreline gun battery at Fort Knox