Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

· exploring · park

While checking out Key West, Florida, we also visited Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park.

I previously posted some pictures of the beach part of the park, but this post is about the historic fort.

A sign at the start of the path to the fort:

Sign

Cannon:

Cannon

Blacksmith:

Blacksmith

The fort:

Fort
Building
Fort

The courtyard inside the fort had a bunch of tents from re-enactors:

Tents
Tents
Tents
Fort
Fort
Fort

Re-enactors with cannons:

Re-enactors
Fort
Tents
Tents
Tents
Tents
Tents
Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort
Re-enactors
Tents
Tents
Tents

An old sail ship, flying a pirate flag and firing cannons, and the re-enactors:

Ship and re-enactors
Ship
Ship and re-enactors
Re-enactors

Another ship:

Ship
Ship

They were probably going to re-enact a sea battle, but we didn’t hang around for that.

A fun array of cannons:

Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort
Fort

Another fascinating historic fort.