Friends of Fort Fremont - Older News
APRIL 20, 2016: The Beaufort Gazette
Fort Fremont a ‘quiet’ sentinel on St. Helena Island
Link to article Fort Fremont was built as a defensive post during Spanish American War. Besides the gun batteries, only its hospital building survives today. The Friends of Fort Fremont are helping to preserve the site.
FEBRUARY 22, 2016: The Beaufort Gazette
Fort Fremont group holding monthly tour Saturday
Link to article Visitors will learn the history of the fort, see a scale model of what it looked like in 1898, and take a tour of what is left of the fort.
JANUARY 24, 2016: The Beaufort Gazette
Link to article Pete Richards, a founding member of the Friends of Fort Fremont, talks about their hopes for the future of Fort Fremont, which was built during the Spanish American War.
JANUARY 23, 2016: The Beaufort Gazette
"So much history here" -- St. Helena Island's Fort Fremont finds renewed sense of history
Link to article "This was part of a history that, when we started, very few people knew about," said Pete Richards, who led a group of about 20 on a tour of Fort Fremont at the end of Lands End Road on Saturday morning.
Click here for reprint of the January 23rd Beaufort Gazette article about our ongoing Docent Tours each month.
JANUARY 21, 2016: The Beaufort Gazette
Docent-led tours of Fort Fremont to start on Saturday
Link to article Beginning Jan. 23, the Friends of Fort Fremont will begin offering docent-led tours of the fort the fourth Saturday of every month, according to a news release.
MAY 28, 2015: The Beaufort Gazette
Part of Fort Fremont diorama to be revealed
Link to article The annual meeting of the Friends of Fort Fremont will be June 9 at 10 a.m. at the St. Helena library.
MAY 12, 2015: The Beaufort Gazette
Wine festival planned to benefit Fort Fremont
Link to article Friends of Fort Fremont is hosting a Spring Wine Festival on Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Saltus Grill on Bay Street in Beaufort.
NOVEMBER 15, 2014: Eat Sleep Play Beaufort
Fort Fremont's history, and the Land's End Light
Link to article Back in Time: Explore Beaufort's History, Beaufort, SC
NOVEMBER 14, 2014: The Beaufort Gazette
Leaders to unveil model, plans for historic Fort Fremont site
Link to article Over the next year, local leaders will bring the remnants of the historic Fort Fremont site on St. Helena Island back to life through a new replica model and planned visitor's museum.
NOVEMBER 3, 2014: The Beaufort Gazette
Plans underway for Fort Fremont diorama
Link to article Master modeler Dennis Cannady is building a three-dimensional diorama of Fort Fremont and will speak at 6 p.m. Nov. 14 at Port Royal Union Church.
APRIL 30, 2013: The Beaufort Gazette
Fort Fremont gets historical marker
Link to article Local dignitaries and the Friends of Fort Fremont gathered for speeches, snacks, and to dedicate the historical marker on the roadside at Fort Fremont.
MARCH 27, 2013: The Beaufort Gazette
Riverview Charter students paint, clean up Beaufort area for service project
Link to article A great group of students, teachers, and parents toured the fort, cleaned up the Fort Fremont property and had lunch.
MARCH 23, 2012: The Beaufort Gazette
Fort Fremont: Homeland Security c.1898
Link to article The Gazette/Island Packet features our exhibit at the John Mark Verdier House in Beaufort which runs through June 30. It is cosponsored by the Friends of Fort Fremont Historic Site and the Humanities CouncilSC, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
MARCH 13, 2012: The Lowcountry Weekly
Link to article Verdier House exhibit spotlights Beaufort�s role during the Spanish-American War
FEBRUARY 27, 2012:
Verdier House Exhibit Awarded Grant by
Link to article at the website of The Humanities CouncilSC
JUNE 3, 2010: The Beaufort Gazette
Fort Fremont Awarded Historical Status
Link to article The Gazette featured Fort Fremont and its official designation in the National Register of Historic Places on the front page of the Lowcountry Life section of the paper.
