ATLANTA – Whitfield County boasts the most surviving Civil War fortifications in the country. Preservationists and local leaders want to keep it that way, but there’s a hurdle: Most of the war's ...

Time and erosion are their enemies now. Having once withstood the march of infantry, pitched battles and artillery bombardments, historic defensive earthworks built at the time of the Civil War around ...

Quote: "The construction of non-explosive barriers and platoon strongholds continues in close coordination with the military. In particular, construction workers are carrying out earthworks, arranging ...

When you hear the word fort, you may think of the kind of structure built on the frontier. High wooden walls protected the interior, much like the fort built by America’s first permanent English ...