The burning settlers cabin and Fort Wilderness in the Background from 1959

The burning settlers cabin and Fort Wilderness in the Background from 1959

The guards at Fort Wilderness

The guards at Fort Wilderness.  Now these were cool uniforms!

The Fort Wilderness on Tom Sawyer's Island (1957)

Fort on Tom's Island in 1957

Back in the late 50's and even into the early 70's this was a great place to go.  You could climb up into the lookout posts and see everything.  Slowly over the years they started to close it down and now you can not even get into the Fort.