Fort Washington

Fort Washington may refer to:

In the United States:

  • In California:
    • Fort Washington, California, census-designated place
  • In Maryland:
    • Fort Washington, Maryland, census-designated place
    • Fort Washington (Maryland), a historic fort that guarded Washington, DC; now Fort Washington Park
  • In Massachusetts:
    • Fort Washington (Massachusetts), an American Revolutionary War-era earthworks in Cambridge, MA, near MIT
  • In New York:
    • Fort Washington (New York), former American Revolutionary War-era fort in Manhattan, New York City
    • Fort Washington Avenue (Manhattan), New York City
  • In Ohio:
    • Fort Washington (Cincinnati, Ohio), former frontier outpost in Cincinnati
    • Fort Washington Way, an expressway that carries Interstate 71 and US Route 50 in downtown Cincinnati
  • In Pennsylvania:
    • Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, census designated place
    • Fort Washington (SEPTA station)
    • Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania
    • Fort Washington Fire Company

In Guyana:

  • Fort Washington, Guyana

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or washington:

    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.”
    —George Washington (1732–1799)