• Feet in the Street!

    Fort Dupont Park

    District of Columbia

People

Civil War Defenses of Washington:

John Gross Barnard

Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont

Contrabands

Freeman Village

Post Civil War:

Senator James McMillan

The Civilian Conservation Corps

Did You Know?

Mountain Laurel

Every spring visitors to Fort Dupont Park experience the re-birth of several beautiful wildflowers, shrubs and trees, including the Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia L.) shown to the left. Mountain Laurel likes to grow in the Park's upland region along the ridge line in several civil war sites in and around the park. More...