By Nancy Sorrells in Newsleader.com, 27 December, 2013.
“The War of 1812 might almost be considered America's forgotten war, but at the time, when the nation was only three decades old, it was significant. My visit to the fort, today operated by the National Park Service, sent me scurrying back to my history books to relearn what I had been taught about the conflict itself and then to find out what Augusta County's role, if any, was in the war.”