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Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park [1] in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan, an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan, [2] to honor his services to Chicago .
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, was a U.S. Army post established in 1887 in Lake County. First called Camp Highwood, it was soon renamed for Civil War hero General Philip H. Sheridan, who died in 1888. In 1887 over 600 acres along Lake Michigan in Highwood, Illinois, was purchased by the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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A scenic destination, this stately preserve offers a variety of opportunities to recreate in nature. Fort Sheridan is one of only a few places in Lake County that offer free public access to Lake Michigan and an awe-inspiring lake overlook perched on a 70-foot-high bluff.
The Philip H. Sheridan Reserve Center is the former Fort Sheridan now in Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as a United States Army Post named after Civil War Cavalry General Philip Sheridan, to honor his services to Chicago.
Fort Sheridan is a monument to the Army’s ambitious build-out of new, comprehensively planned forts across the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. With 66 buildings by Holabird and Roche of Chicago and a landscape by Ossian Cole Simonds, the Fort stands as a cohesive lakefront ensemble despite ...
- Significance: Fort Sheridan is an important turn-of-the century military post planned and constructed during a period of transition in national policy which signaled the closing of temporary frontier posts and the establishment of permanent garrisons of troops at strategic points throughout the United States.
Fort Sheridan is one of only a few places in Lake County that offers free public access to Lake Michigan and an awe-inspiring lake overlook perched on a 70-foot-high bluff. Visitors can enjoy hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, fishing, picnicking and birdwatching.
