The fort was laid out in a rectangular shape with four main barracks arranged around a central parade ground. A stockade 11 feet 9 inches high surrounded the main buildings, with pickets made mostly of oak and some linwood and bass, hewed flat, fit closely together, and tipped with iron. Three gates stood in the stockade, and the main gate opened north onto the Military Road, the main travel route. The original stockade was torn down and used for firewood in the 1950's. Along the reconstructed stockade, some sections have horizontal logs rather than upright ones because the unique outer wall construction of some buildings became part of the stockade, and in some places the walls are shorter to allow a view beyond them as an intentional feature of the renovation. Originally, gun openings were cut at regular intervals around the stockade wall so the military could see out and protect the fort. The entire area was not enclosed by the stockade, and on the north side of Military Road stood other important fort buildings, including a carpenter shop, bakehouse, laundress houses, blacksmith shop, quartermaster's office, stables, and a granary. Although modern agriculture and development destroyed all surface evidence of these buildings, an archaeological survey using ground-penetrating radar in 2006 identified buried remains of some of them.