We've been sprucing up the site of late with some fresh content. Look for building plans of the Quartermaster Commissary (Building 16) drawn from the National Archives, and plans of several other buildings. Also some more text and images on Battery Nash and the shore batteries of Warner, Vinton and Thornburgh; and an image of [...]
Celebrate Fort Ward Community Hall at this dedication and open house event, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 17. The event will include a special commemorative USPS stamp cancellation, with a design by Bainbridge Island artist Marc Anderson. Free commemorative postcards will be available to be stamped with the 1-day cancellation. PLEASE RSVP if [...]
Welcome to the new website dedicated to the historic Fort Ward neighborhood – "the Little Fort at Bean Point" on Bainbridge Island, WA. Our original site was dedicated to chronicling the restoration of Fort Ward's historic bakery building, a project that spanned 2015-20 before the COVID pandemic put things on hold. With that project [...]
An all-volunteer project of
Friends of Fort Ward
Station S
Bainbridge Island, WA
EIN 47-5172442
This site is developed and maintained with support from the Coast Defense Study Group and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
