Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State 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.