First built by the Dutch, overtaken by Danish, after the Dutch run for their life's from Dahome kingdom!

4. Fort Augustaborg (Fort Teshie) – Teshie

• Built by: Danes

• Year: 1787

• Status: Ruins

• Notes: Last European fort built on the Gold Coast. Close to the community beach in Teshie. Important for trade and diplomacy with Ga-Adangbe peoples.

5. Fort Labadi (unofficial name) – La (Labadi)

• Built by: Possibly British or Dutch

• Year: Unknown

• Status: No confirmed structural remains

• Notes: Some local oral histories and maps suggest a small coastal outpost may have existed here, but no formal fort has been documented.

6. Christiansborg Castle (Osu Castle) – Osu (Accra)

• Built by: Danes (originally Portuguese as Fort São Francisco, 1550s)

• Major Construction: 1661 by Danes

• Status: Restored; used naw as a museum, and partly as a government building

• Nearby, you find the RICHTER`S FORT - A fort build mainly for slave trade, long after abolishment of such by Danish and British. Information on Osu Castle website!

• Notes: The most prominent Danish structure in Ghana. Served as the seat of colonial government under both the Danes and later the British. Open for tours.

7. Fort James – Jamestown, Accra

• Built by: British

• Year: 1673

• Status: Still standing (partly restored)

• Notes: Once a prison, now being restored for tourism. Built to rival Dutch and Danish forts nearby.

8. Fort Crevecoeur (later Ussher Fort) – Usshertown, Accra

• Built by: Dutch (as Fort Crèvecœur)

• Year: 1649

• Renamed: Ussher Fort by the British

• Status: Partially restored; museum use

• Notes: Built to compete with other European powers. Later became a British post and prison.

9. Fort São Francisco – Original Portuguese structure at Osu

• Built by: Portuguese

• Year: 1558

• Status: Absorbed into Christiansborg Castle

• Notes: The first European fortification on the Osu site, later taken over by the Danes and heavily modified.

Fort Visao still stands today! Neglect by GMMB (Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and UNESCO (same as Richters Fort, Osu). Build by the Portoguise, before others came, burned down by a Ga Queen, rebuild and used to ship slaves, via hidden slave tunnels! Located at Jamestown!

Overview Map (East to West)

• Ada Foah – Fort Kongensteen

• Old Ningo – Fort Fredensborg

• Prampram – Fort Vernon

• Teshie – Fort Augustaborg

• La (Labadi) – Site possibly used by Europeans

• Osu (Accra) – Christiansborg Castle

• Jamestown (Accra) – Fort James

• Usshertown (Accra) – Ussher Fort (Crevecoeur)

• For more information about Forts and Castles, located in today Ghana, please visit > Ghana`s No1 Tourism and Info Website!