Fort Martin Scott marks 175 years as a site that helped town get established

James McDonald, who helped replace aging signs at the fort earlier this year, served as master of ceremonies for Friday night’s commemoration.

Fredericksburg has long prided itself on a history of gritty German settlers toughing out the landscape and hostile Native American forces to settle this town. But if it hadn’t been for a military outpost on this bleak frontier — now known as Fort Martin Scott — the town’...