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Exploring Ft. Worden bunkers with family, light house, Pt Townsend

Fort Worden and accompanying Fort Worden Historical State Park are located in Port Townsend, along Admiralty Inlet in Washington state.[1] It is on 433 acres (175 ha) that originally was a United States Army installation to protect Puget Sound.[2] Fort Worden was named after U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden, commander of USS Monitor during its famous battle during the American Civil War.[3]

Constructed between 1898 and 1920, Fort Worden was one of the largest Endicott system forts to be built and a rare example of a post built according to the precepts of the Endicott Board on land not already occupied by an older fortification. It was also the only one within sight of a potential (if unlikely) enemy fortification, a British military post on Vancouver Island in Canada.[4] The fort was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.Fort Worden was an active US Army base from 1902 to 1953. It was purchased by the State of Washington in 1957 to house a juvenile detention facility. In 1971, use was transferred to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and Fort Worden State Park was opened in 1973.[6]

Strategic location
In the 1890s, Admiralty Inlet was considered strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in that three forts -- Fort Worden, Fort Flagler, and Fort Casey -- were built at the entrance with their powerful artillery creating a Triangle of Fire to thwart any invasion attempt by sea. Fort Worden, on the Quimper Peninsula, at the extreme northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, sits on a bluff near Port Townsend, anchoring the northwest side of the triangle. The three posts were designed to prevent a hostile fleet from reaching such targets as the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the cities of Seattle, Tacoma and Everett.

The forts never fired a hostile shot and the guns were removed during World War I for use in Europe. Subsequently, Fort Worden was used for training a variety of military personnel and for other defense purposes.[7

Battle Ready: The Military’s Environmental Legacy in the Northwest

Seventy-five years ago, America was drawn into World War II and the Pacific Northwest answered the call with lumber, hydroelectricity, even a secret plutonium factory to arm atomic bombs. Soldiers trained here. Cities were transformed by shipyards and airplane assembly lines. Victory was the priority and little thought went toward the environmental toll these efforts would take. This special program explores the hidden history of the military, the Northwest and the environment. The series also looks at the military’s presence in the Northwest today, including its impact on wildlife that depend on the same habitats where soldiers, sailors and pilots train for war.

Battle Ready is an EarthFix and KCTS 9 Digital Studios production built in collaboration with partner stations Oregon Public Broadcasting, Idaho Public Television, KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Northwest Public Radio and Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2741, the “Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act”

Full Committee markup