Fort Ricketts

ID: 2472 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Creator: Photo by John Stanton ~ Date: 22 May 2013

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Built out as a small earthworks fort with a 123 yard perimeter and equipped with four guns. The fort was designed to sweep a steep ravine in front of Fort Stanton

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Fort Ricketts

Fort Ricketts was constructed to protect the Maryland or eastern end of the two bridges crossing the Anacostia (at the Navy Yard and two and a half miles upstream at Benning's Bridge) and to occupy the heights above the Navy Yard and Washington…