The Historic Fort of Taft, Ca

09/16/2024

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Scovel! 🤍💍🤍It’s was THE BEST DAY! Thank you, Tyler and Brooklyn, for choosing the for your wedding and reception.

Wedding photo .

09/10/2024

South courtyard palm tree beautification project is near completion! Thank you to Eric and Jeff Cooper from Cooper’s True Value for their generous donation of a pallet of bark and a case of Miracle Grow. We have plenty left to use in other flower beds and pots.

Thank you also to Deanna Jacobs from Every Penny Counts for her donation of this amazing cart. We sincerely appreciate your generosity!

Thank you to Abbi Kindred for volunteering all day to help wherever we needed her! Thank you to our Fort Preservation Board President, Vahnita Ho**er for all her help.

09/08/2024

Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary to Ben and Jennifer Mangum. We would like you to thank you for choosing The Historic Fort to celebrate your amazing anniversary with your family and friends. It was our pleasure to be a part of your celebration. The Fort Preservation Society wishes you many more HAPPY and HEALTHY years. ❤️

Flowers by

09/08/2024

Work day at the Fort and Camryn Olivia was a big helper! ❤️

Thank you to Greg Bonner, Kirk Kindred, Hunter Liljeroos for all your help on a TOUGH JOB today. Thank you to our Fort Preservation Society President, Vahnita Ho**er, for your help in the gardens! You’re all the BEST!

We’d also like to thank our new gardener, Albert Romo, for getting some big jobs done!

If you haven’t stopped by lately, you should come take a peak! The Historic Fort is looking great! We have some beautiful weddings coming up! We also have our FALL Fort Flea Market on November 2nd and our 1st concert featuring Angels Roost on November 16th. We’ve already sold several tables for the concert! Thanks to those who have already purchased tickets.

We hope to see you at our events!

08/16/2024

Super excited about this upcoming event at the Historic Fort. Mark your calendars! You don’t want to miss this!

08/03/2024

Happy 1st Anniversary and ! We made it despite some pretty challenging obstacles. We would like to thank the Fort Preservation Society for offering us this opportunity! It’s been a great experience and we’ve learned a lot. We appreciate all that you ladies do to help and support us. Thank you also to Deanna Jacobs for your support and encouragement. We have sincerely appreciated you helping with our finances. We thought we knew how to stretch dollars working at a school district but we have truly learned to stretch pennies at the Fort. We’ve had the pleasure of working with numerous couples and families as well as businesses and service clubs to book numerous weddings, showers, birthday parties, memorials, business trainings and business parties, luncheons, anniversary parties, TUHS Prom, photos sessions and senior photos, and quinceaneras. Additionally, we have held a Christmas Bunco, 3 very successful Fort Flea Markets, and we have an upcoming Angels Roost Concert in November which are community events as well as fundraisers for the Fort. These events have kept us very busy nearly every weekend. We have recently added a fabulous Margarita machine to our bar and we have many other ideas on our wish list as well as NEEDS for the Fort to continue to offer our community for a full service venue for all your event and entertainment needs. The Fort is a non-profit (501c3) and we survive on business rental income as well as events and fundraisers. We still have many needs so if you personally or your business would like to provide a service of donate funds, give us a call at (661) 765-7371 and we can inform you of our dreams and challenges. We continue to work towards new chairs but there are many other items large and small that we need. Finally, we thank the citizens of Taft and our families for supporting us! We hope to continue to improve our beautiful and unique Historic Fort for the future.

08/03/2024

Today we had the pleasure of booking a wedding for the son of Kevin and Cindy Marking, who were also married at The Historic Fort nearly 31 years ago, on September 7th, 1993. Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary and we look forward to your son’s wedding. 🤍Thank you for sharing your wedding photos either us!

07/08/2024

We are super sad to announce that we have had to reschedule our SUMMER CONCERT with Angels Roost due to the unpredictable and EXTREME HEAT! 🔥

No worries! Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 16th! The air will be cooler but this band will be 🔥!

07/03/2024

JOB OPPORTUNITY: The Fort Preservation Society is accepting resumes for the position of Caretaker. This individual will need to live on the premises and be available to assist with set up and clean up for events, unlock and lock up the facility each day, and perform basic maintenance and cleaning. The compensation for this position will be a provided apartment with basic utilities included. The size of the quarters is only suitable for 1-2 persons. There is no monetary compensation for this position, so a candidate may maintain other employment off-site, provided he/she is able to perform all required duties of this position. Resumes with at least three professional references may be submitted no later than August 15th to [email protected] or to DeAnna Jacobs at Every Penny Counts at 620 Center Street.

06/30/2024

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for a very successful and fun, yes, HOT 🥵, !

Three fleamarkets in the books now. Each one has turned out better! We have learned a lot and continue to try to improve our experience, the vendor experience, and the shopper’s experience!

Many thanks to our wonderful vendors who are a pleasure to work with. We appreciate your talents and hard work! We hope you had fun too!

Thank you to our Fort Board for all your help and support at our events. We sure appreciate you supporting that very popular Margarita machine! Many thanks to all you ladies who worked all day both days in a HOT KITCHEN with no A/C. You ladies all rock!❤️

Thanks all the very sweet volunteers who helped in the kitchen and stayed after and helped us clean up tables, chairs, and trash! We appreciate you all!

Thanks to everyone who attended! We hope you had a great time, bought a great treasure, and had a great drink!😂

Thanks to our husbands .kirk and for stepping up to help wherever we needed you! ❤️

Nancy and Lisa

06/30/2024

More amazing vendors at the Fort Flea! New friends and connections were made. Vendors bought and swapped items! So much fun at the end to see these hard working vendors make deals, donate, and…ask, “When is the next FLEA MARKET?”

You’ve really made our weekend! ❤️Thank you, for helping us have a wonderful event to offer to our community!

06/30/2024

We can’t have a successful Fleamarket without all these wonderful vendors. They work hard to set up and provide you with a range of wonderful items. The Fort appreciates all our returning and NEW vendors.

06/30/2024

What a GREAT (hot day) at The Historic Fort of Taft, Ca Flea Market. We can’t control the heat or… maybe the ants, but we sure can offer you lots of fun, good food, great refreshing drinks, and some AMAZING VENDORS WITH LOTS OF WONDERFUL ITEMS!

If you missed us this weekend, that’s a bummer! Hope you’ll mark your calendars for the November Fleamarket!

06/29/2024

The Fort Flea is OPEN! 9-3 TODAY!

Come visit our wonderful vendors, grab a frosty Margarita, and enjoy a pulled pork sandwich!

06/29/2024

There’s still time to come watch The Taft Jazz Combo and grab a refreshing drink at the Fort Flea!

06/29/2024

A few of our Fort Flea Vendors! We thank you for being here! ❤️❤️❤️



Saturday, 9-3.

06/28/2024

Check out Abbi Kindred in this darling crocheted halter top by Wine Tour Crochet Lady! AVAILABLE at The Fort Flea 5-9 TONIGHT and 9-3 Saturday!

Come shop, eat, visit, have a cold drink and watch the Taft Brass Band TONIGHT!

06/28/2024

Friday Night at the Flea!

06/28/2024

The Historic Fort has a BRAND NEW chilly, yummy, fabulous MARGARITA MACHINE! It’s frosty and ready to be served at The Fort Flea Market Tomorrow night, 5-9 and Saturday 9-3. Tasty Margaritas (along with Beer, Mimosas, Cadillac Margaritas, Truly’s)and Non-Alcoholic Cherry Slushies will be served in the Hall Bar. Pulled Pork sandwiches, Nachos, and hot dogs and chips will be for sale in the kitchen! The Taft Brass Band and Jazz Combo will be playing at the North gate! We have nearly 60 vendors bringing you lots of goodies. and come on down!

06/26/2024

The Historic Fort of Taft, Ca is so very proud to announce that we will have a LIVE performance throughout the Flea Market on Friday night. The Taft Brass Band and a Jazz Combo of Taft Musicians will both be performing at the side gate entrance for your listening pleasure while you shop, visit, eat, and have a COLD DRINK! We so appreciate these young and very talented Taft musicians performing for us! Come on down and show them your support!

06/25/2024

06/21/2024

The Fort Flea
Friday, June 28th 5pm-9pm
Saturday, June 29th 9am-3pm

FREE ENTRANCE

06/19/2024

It’s the LAST week to sign up for the Fort Flea, Friday night, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th. Your $25 fee is DUE MONDAY, the 24th. Cash, card or VENMO!

We need your name, phone number, email, what you are selling, and fee.

We are emailing out the guidelines and set up info to all vendors.

Please call 661-765-7371.

06/19/2024

Happy 29th Anniversay, Brent and Julie Ortlieb! We’re so excited to share your beautiful wedding at the Historic Fort! We wish you many more years of HAPPINESS! ❤️