Fort Hunt (Sheridan's Point in Washington's Day) served as a fort to defend the settlers against Indians in the 17th century.
In the latter part of the 19th century gun batteries were installed to defend Washington, D.C. during the Spanish American War along with Fort Washington in Maryland.
It served for a brief time as an ROTC training camp for African Americans as well a temporary Veteran's Administration Hospital.
During World War II Fort Hunt was known as P.O. Box 1142, the secret POW camp that housed and interrogated over 4,000 German prisoners. Interestingly, most of the American interrogators were refugees from Nazi Germany.
Today, all but two of the old buildings have been razed and the acreage has been converted to an extremely popular picnic destination along the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
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