Fort Stevens

Fort Stevens may refer to one of two decommissioned American military forts:

  • Fort Stevens (Oregon), a fort in Oregon that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River
  • Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.), a fort in Washington, D.C. that defended the city during the Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or stevens:

    There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It makes so little difference, at so much more
    Than seventy, where one looks, one has been there before.
    Wood-smoke rises through trees, is caught in an upper flow
    Of air and whirled away. But it has been often so.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)