Fort Entrance Area

Fort Entrance Area-Brick Walkways, Two Flags and a Stone Wall

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The entrance area is designed to be inviting with a brick plaza, a stone wall with a Fort Scott National Historic Site sign and two flagpoles that fly the U.S. flag and the U.S. Department of the Interior flag. The brick plaza was designed as an aesthetic feature and is an extension of some of the brick streets in town. There were no brick walkways in the 1840s when Fort Scott was established. Instead, the bricks are left over from a time when brick manufacturing plants were active in town at the beginning of the 20th century. The flags flown are all weather flags and are flown every day, but are lowered to half mast for appropriate occassions.