Fort Vancouver palisade The palisade at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site consists of 2,461 vertical Douglas fir and lodgepole pine logs. But after up to 50 years, some individual pieces of ...

It’s not your grandmother’s picket fence. The pickets are 18 feet long and the fence they form is the palisade that surrounds Fort Vancouver.

A part of the 1836 battle is returning to the Alamo on Friday — a partial, re-created version of a wooden fortification that has been a subject of lore and debate. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas ...