It is difficult to imagine residents of the beautiful Lowcountry living under threat of war and desolation. Native Americans who inhabited the islands and forests of the region first felt it when ...

BIG POOL—In the annals of American History, the French and Indian War doesn't get quite the star status of other events. "This is overlooked and misunderstood," said Robert Ambrose, a ranger at Fort ...

BIG POOL — Most people in Washington County have heard of Fort Frederick. But did you know that other French and Indian War-era forts once covered the area? When making your way around Washington ...

PORT ROYAL, S.C. — As a military bastion of the then-powerful British Empire, Fort Frederick on the South Carolina coast was a failure. The fort built of a concrete comprised of oyster shells and sand ...

Danny Clopper will be cooking for 5,000 on Memorial Day weekend. Clopper will be making his country ham-and-bean soup over an open fire at the log-walled Tavern on the Potowmack as part of the 250th ...

The gates to a 280-year-old fort in Port Royal are opening to the public, and its grounds are being opened by archaeologists seeking artifacts. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust ...

PORT ROYAL — Music blared from a portable speaker as a dozen volunteers unloaded mesh bags of oyster shells from a boat on the Beaufort River. In the distance, the tabby walls of Fort Frederick stood ...

Box tree moth, an invasive species that can devastate boxwood plants, has been confirmed for the first time in Maryland — in Fort Frederick State Park in western Washington County. The Maryland ...

FORT DETRICK, Maryland - In a unique two-for-one deal, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, representatives joined Fort Detrick and Frederick officials to cut the ribbon on two recently ...