that we will be seeing, is this bastion directly over here, which would have faced out toward louisburg turnpike, present day route seven. the fort is located on an important, strategic high point of ground between two major access routes to alexandria and the washington area. this is the ceremonial entrance gate to fort ward. it has been reconstructed from a period engineer plan from the fort, so it is an authentic pattern and situated on the original site, so it helps to give context actually to be preserved earthwork walls of the fort. this is the spot where soldiers would have entered the fort during the war years. we are standing now at the reconstructed northwest bastion of fort ward, and this is an excellent, authentic example of what the interior and exterior of one of these forts would have looked like. one of those important elements of any fort would have been an underground room called a powder i amine, and right now standing in front of the entrance door that would have led underground to a long, narrow room where powder, bags and barrels of gunpowder, what have in storage. this is