In 1921, Fort Fremont was finally deactivated, 10 years after they first started removing the artillery. The property is now privately owned.
In 1963, The Sunday News And Courier ran a quite expansive article about Fort Fremont, written from an editorial point of view. It was called "Fort Fremont - Hard Luck Fort" and it was written by Gibson. (no first name is given)
The article is as follows:
"LANDS END: It was a hard-luck fort, right from the start: built at the end of nowhere; unneeded before it was even completed; doomed to early abandonment and one of its garrison to a bloody, useless death.
They named it Fort Fremont, for Savannah- born, Charleston-educated John Charles Fremont, and Washington shelved it, as it had that ill-starred Union general, before it could gather battle laurels.
The name still shows on highway maps of Beaufort County. The fort still stands at the southern tip of St Helena Island, at the end of a secondary road trailing away from U.S. 21 at Frogmore and running down to Land's End on the broad, blue expanse of the Port Royal Sound.
It is possible to reach Fort Fremont by following that road, asking directions at the end and keeping a sharp lookout. For the sea island jungle has all but reclaimed the battlements and a stranger can pass within 10 yards and never see them through the dense, green screen."
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