The site, located at a high point next to Fort Avenue on Salem Neck, is a relatively rare fortification from that period whose remains are relatively unaltered.

Reportedly, the fort had a garrison of 3 officers and 100 artillerymen with 16 guns.

[2][3] The site, of which only overgrown earthworks and a stone magazine survive, was repaired in the 1790s,[3] and rebuilt for the American Civil War.

[4] An Army engineer drawing dated 1872 depicts the fort's five-pointed trace and the four Civil War gun positions.

[2] The fort site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.