Fort Ward’s Lost Graves: McKnight Family Graves
Traces of the past run throughout Fort Ward Park some of which are obvious while others more subtle. If you follow the loop-road past the Museum Parking area, restrooms and the earthworks of the fort there is a maintenance path on the left of the road. Before the park was created this land was owned by the McKnight’s and if you look closely along the path you’ll see bricks from the building that once was there. City staff, who were interviewed for this research by members of the Fort Ward History Work Group recall that there were graves below the backside of the fort. City laborers in the 1960‘s were directed by their managers to fill in the depressions from the graves so that these burials would not be visible within the park.
Traces of the past run throughout Fort Ward Park some of which are obvious while others more subtle. If you follow the loop-road past the Museum Parking area, restrooms and the earthworks of the fort there is a maintenance path on the left of the road. Before the park was created this land was owned by the McKnight’s and if you look closely along the path you’ll see bricks from the building that once was there. City staff, who were interviewed for this research by members of the Fort Ward History Work Group recall that there were graves below the backside of the fort. City laborers in the 1960‘s were directed by their managers to fill in the depressions from the graves so that these burials would not be visible within the park.
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