What it was like: The fort was quite there was just me and my friend out there. there was trash all over the place but there was vary little down on the playground and around the light house rockway. it was fun to walk all the way out to the light house wish i could have had the key to get in to the upper part of the the light house. 
why it is historical: IT IS A FORT!!!!! ok you need more then that it now but come on. the fort was build in 1808 by Henry A. S. Dearborn in honor of Commodore Edward Preble. it was used in the war of 1812 and the civil war the Spring Point Ledge Light was added to the fort in 1897
sources: the stuff about the fort at the fort and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Point_Ledge_Light
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Preble
