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(Encyclopedia) Arlington.
1 Town, Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston; settled c.1630 as
Menotomy, inc. as West Cambridge 1807, renamed Arlington 1867. The area was the scene of
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(Encyclopedia) Fort Laramie National Historic Site lârˈəmē [key], 833 acres (337 hectares), SE Wyo.; est. 1938. Founded in 1834 as a fur-trading post by William Sublette and Robert Campbell, it was bought by the...
(Encyclopedia) Fort George G. Meade, U.S. army post, 13,500 acres (5,460 hectares), central Md., between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.; est. 1917 as a World War I induction center.
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(Encyclopedia) Fort Île-aux-Noix: see Île-aux-Noix, Canada.
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(Encyclopedia) Fort Jefferson National Monument: see Dry Tortugas National Park under Dry Tortugas.
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(Encyclopedia) Fort Clatsop National Memorial, now part of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. See National Parks and Monuments (table)
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(Encyclopedia) Fort Sam Houston, U.S. army facility, S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the U.S. Army North and the U.S. Army South. In 2010 it was amalgamated with Lackland and Randolph air force bases to crea...
(Encyclopedia) Dallas, city (2020 pop. 1,304,379),
seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its
three forks; inc. 1871. The third largest ...
(Encyclopedia) Fort Henry: see Kingston, Ont., Canada.
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(Encyclopedia) Oswald, Lee Harvey, 1939–63, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, b. New Orleans. Oswald spent most of his boyhood in Fort Worth, Tex. Later, he attended a Dallas high school, and enlisted (1956) i...