so I think we should tell them a little bit about how the fort actually got
saved don't you think they're peeps and welcome to another special edition of
our haunted travels I am your host Sean Donnelly I'm your co-host Maryann
Donnelly today we are telling you about the man
who saved for Zachary Taylor
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so the man who saved fort zachary taylor we've been covering the fort all this
week we've already put out a couple videos and tomorrow we're gonna go over
the history of the fort and tomorrow's video but tonight we want to tell you a
little bit about what we found which is kind of cool what made this a very
special video some of the history about a gentleman named Howard s England and I
had reached out somehow I found his son his son's email on a picture that was
posted on Flickr and I sent him an email and I got some information back which is
pretty cool and is really cool love the fact that you were able to get in
contact with his son yeah so his son's name is Edward England so big thank you
to him for sending us some information and making this even a better video
now there is a website out there called fort taylor dot-org and it's dedicated
to the legacy of fort zachary taylor and specifically howard england so i put a
link to that down in the description of this video i also posted it out on our
research thing on patreon - very cool website and actually edward sent it to
you this is the one that said hey check out our website which is pretty cool
stuff out there so let's get started with Howard the man who saved the fort
now those of you probably don't know this because you haven't saw the history
about this yet but you know the fort itself was actually just a storage
dumping yard for the Navy pretty much it never did see any actual battle but
didn't see any action and it was it changed hands from the Army to the navy
and then the navy just used it for storage and dumping ground basically and
this story that we're gonna tell you is how actually mr. England will refer to
him as mr. England got involved and found some very cool information about
the fort and saved it from probably being demolished I would assume so a
little bit about mr. England himself he was born in 1914 and unfortunately
passed away in 1999 he's responsible I would say wholeheartedly for saving the
fort from the information that he discovered and dug up right I I think
that it would probably just been left to eventually crumble if it wasn't for what
they found what he found is right he was born in Key West Florida and he was a
civilian architect for the Navy
now wikipedia says that the way this got started was he went out on his own to
investigate the fourth in the article that his son sent me it stated that he
was asked he was tasked with the duty of going out and finding information about
the fort I believe the article were Wikipedia you know yes just saying yeah
I'm gonna assume that his son had a little bit to do with the you know
article itself and he of course has all the family history and so forth rather
than Wikipedia so let's get into how the fort was actually saved okay
now the way this basically went down in the fall of 1968 he was asked to do some
research about the fort like you said it never saw any military action okay but
it did serve as part of the Army and the Navy mmm-hmm 1968 basically was just
sitting around and they asked him hey can you just do a little bit of research
about the fort and find out about some of the history that was in the fall
December 21st of 1968 which is kind of an important date and we a little bit
messed up on this okay because this was scheduled to come out on December 21st
but with the holidays and no Christmas yeah but with the 50th anniversary okay
which the 21st marked at 15 that's the first excavation that they did at the
fort they meaning mr. England mr. England and his team and what he
discovered in his research basically was true that there was a lot of Civil War
really armaments that was buried at the fort right okay so for the next
eight years eight years mr. England and his team which they called what they
call the sand hogs yeah they laboured at the for escalating
and uncovering some of these cannons and stuff at the fort which basically saved
the fort from being demolished right because it that eventually led to its
being put on the national registers and things like that
but I can I can believe that it would have taken that long because he had a
very small team and I've been on archaeological digs and I did two years
just on a real small cemetery that is now a parking lot this facility this
site is just cute I am surprised it only took eight years
so speaking of that let's talk about what they went through okay so first of
all they went through 24 shovels which again did person does not surprise me at
all over a thousand five-gallon buckets which were just thrown about there
because it was just a story of yard trash that they use and they went
through fifty thousand cubic yards of rock and rubble that they dug through
that's pretty amazing but what they ended up doing was
uncovering twenty coastal artillery pieces along with the carriages that gun
chasse sees thousands rounds of ammunition and throughout the years that
he spent there at the fort he met various many many Civil War historians
that came down there and they all basically told him it was the largest
collection of silver war-era coastal cannons anywhere anywhere that was
buried there on the grounds that just based on his research and determination
they found all that and recovered all that which is pretty cool yeah super
cool actually
so why don't you cover a little bit let's backtrack a little bit on how he
got involved okay well as you mentioned he was native to Key West itself and in
fact he was pretty smart cookie he ended up graduating as valedictorian
of his class there at Key West High School in 1932 and then when the war
broke out World War two that is he decided I really want to be part of this
and he requested to be drafted as a photographer for the six Marine Corps
division that's right for this he ends up going to Guadalcanal he goes to
Okinawa gets into some pretty historic places at the time during the war that
would later become historic but after the war he returns back home to Key West
marries his sweethearts of course but he does that he ends up having two sons and
a daughter and he decides to pursue an architecture career and so he does this
and he becomes an engineer for the Navy's the Navy's public works division
eventually though he does reach the retirement age and so he retires from
civil service in 1972 but he continued working as a volunteer that's right
he was unpaid but he continued to volunteer with the Navy's permission and
following the name of the fort as a National Historic Site in 71 he became
the unofficial curator so he was the curator for the fort and all in those
artifacts that he helped to find and uncover and then when it receives the
national landmark status in 73 he served as the only known private individual
ever to be entrusted with the care of such important property but it makes
sense I mean he found it yeah well when the state of Florida received the
Florida's property in 1976 it actually hired mr. Englund as a laborer until he
of course had the opportunity to attend Ranger Academy and then of course in 79
became the first permanent park ranger to be assigned
now in 1984 he was forced to retire because of age mandatory age of 70 yeah
very sad he was forced to retire he spent most of his adult life with the
fork right well of course as you said a lot of his career was right there and in
fact he created detailed engineering drawings remember he was an architect of
the armaments that he found there and he built 20 different very highly detailed
museum models as well of all of those things that well those models also
depicted the way the fort look during the Civil War era
that's right that's right yes and then in 1983 just before that mandatory
retirement he presented he was presented with the first-ever Distinguished
Service Medal for Park Service employees and in 1999 it continues he's actually
named the great Floridian by the Florida Department of State and the Florida
League of Cities in recognition for all his tireless efforts right there at Fort
Taylor so again in reality if it wasn't for all of his work and all of his
effort and his dedication I mean again this is another person that is one of
our heroes dedicated his life to that facility in saving that facility and his
dream was it for it to become a national park for others to go and enjoy and
learn about the history and things like that and that happened it did
he made it happen and also there's there's like beaches there that you can
go and there's all kinds of things that you can do there so it's a it's a very
very cool location that we just kind of like came upon our whims yeah let's go
down and check out there's a fort down there let's go check that out
that's great glad we did it was on the map wait we got a map when we went when
we got there and let's go see the fort all right so before we end this video is
there anything else you would like to add pretty much covered at all there's
one more thing I would like to to mention well today all of the items that
he found aren't actually there some of some things are still undisplaced some
little things they have some of the the rooms in the fort kind of set up with
some things that were found and things like that but the majority of them have
actually been moved to Tallahassee yeah and some of them are in East Martello
using them that's right we chose not hello hmm that one's coming yeah but
yeah because of hurricanes and things like that they had to move
yeah safeguard that hopefully one day that organization that will be able to
build a facility there to bring that stuff back to the location that's that's
one thing that the work yeah absolutely but I will end it with this somebody
asked him one time why he spent so much of his life and time dedicating you know
dedicated to his work yeah I mean he had a family
yeah and his response was quite simple someone had to do it someone had to do
it and so he thought why not himself yeah pretty cool well we hope you
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