American Forts Network

About your virtual tour guides through history...


New Castle Arsenal
Pete and family at the Old Arsenal Pub,
New Castle, Delaware, 2003.

Fort Foote
Phil and our dad Pierre at the Golden Gate,
San Francisco, California, 2006.

Our dad contributes photographs from his many trips.

Brothers Pete and Phil Payette are originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but have lived in Virginia
since their family moved to Fredericksburg in 1972. Pete is happily married to wife Leisa,
with three children; Joseph, Hannah, and Lucien, and is currently employed in the grocery business
in Charlottesville. Phil is unmarried, and was formerly in the US Navy. He is now employed
in the private sector in Virginia Beach.


Fort Stark
Pete with brother Nathan and his wife Lorrie
at the rear of Battery Kirk/HECP at Fort Stark,
New Castle, New Hampshire, 1999.

Nathan contributed photos for Fort Macon, NC, and Fort Foster, ME.



Please visit our other websites that we have produced for the American Forts Network.
We hope you like them!


North American Forts

Portsmouth Harbor Forts, New Hampshire Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay Forts, Virginia Potomac River Defenses of Washington, DC Baltimore Harbor Forts, Maryland

North Carolina Coastal Defenses Delaware Bay Forts, Delaware and New Jersey Puget Sound Forts, Washington State New York Harbor Forts, New York and New Jersey

Canadian Maritimes Forts, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland Eastern Lake Ontario Forts, Ontario and New York


We have a ton of photos from our trips to many other places
but we do not have plans at this time to create any additional websites.


American Forts Network

Also of interest, please visit the Virginia Lighthouses website produced by Phil Payette.


Please e-mail us at: Pete at northamericanforts.com
Phil at hrforts at aol.com
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