Fort Armstrong: The Forgotten Fort Built After the Dade Massacre

Historic monument and interpretive map marking the site of Fort Armstrong near Dade Battlefield in Florida, surrounded by palmettos, moss-draped oaks, and dense Florida wilderness beneath a bright blue sky.

Florida doesn’t always reveal its history easily. Sometimes it hides it beneath pine needles, roadside traffic, and stretches of land that seem too quiet to have witnessed anything terrible at all. The road near Dade Battlefield Historic State Park looks ordinary now—just another patch of rural Florida where palmettos sway beneath the morning sun and … Read more