Fort Hughes stood at the present site of Chason Park, where the Battle of Fowltown was fought in 1817 at the beginning of the Seminole War. The fort included an approximately 90-foot by 90-foot stockade wall and two blockhouses at opposite corners, with the entire southern wall and the southwestern blockhouse lying within the park and the remaining features on adjacent property. Its stockade was built by digging a trench about 3 feet deep, setting timber logs into it, and filling around them, using small trees thick enough to stop the metal musket balls fired by the flintlock muskets used by both U.S. and Native American forces. Between 2017 and 2023, historian Dale Cox and archaeologists Rhonda Kimbrough, Brian Mabelitini, and Tray Earnest confirmed the fort's location through metal detector survey, archival research, exploratory trench digging, excavations of the stockade wall line, and additional testing that uncovered intact stockade remains and 200-year-old artifacts including deer bones from a soldier's meal, lead bullets, and a ramrod used for loading a gun.