Fort Brooke

Fort Brooke was a historical military post situated on the east bank (at the mouth) of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Convention Center currently stands at the site.

Read more about Fort Brooke:  Fort Brooke As A Military Outpost, Fort Brooke As An Incorporated Town

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or brooke:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “But the best I’ve known
    Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
    About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
    Of living men, and dies.”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)