Sullivan’s Island, S.C.
Visited: October 20, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 264 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Coastal defense fort that saw continuous military use for nearly two centuries, including major battles in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
BEAUTY (6/10)
Red bricks replaced the namesakes of Fort Moultrie’s Palmetto Fort in the early 1800s. Low walls encircle a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fort’
Fort Moultrie National Monument – part of Fort Sumter NM
Posted in National Monument, tagged Affiliated Site, Civil War, Coastal Fort, Fort, Fort Sumter, Revolutionary War, South Carolina on October 20, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Fort Sumter National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Boats, Civil War, Fort, South Carolina, Tourist Trap on October 19, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Charleston Harbor, S.C.
Visited: October 19, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 264 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Federal defense fort located in the middle of Charleston Harbor. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops deluged the Fort with artillery fire, captured the Union soldiers and officially began the American Civil War.
BEAUTY (7/10)
Fort Sumter is a pentagon-shaped redbrick fortification [...]
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Arkansas, Civil War, Colonization, Fort, France, Ghost Town, New World, Revo, Swamp on August 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Gould, Ark.
Visited: August 29, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 240 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of one of France’s earliest permanent New World settlements. For almost 200 years, from 1686 to 1863, the Arkansas Post was an important city but now nothing remains.
BEAUTY (5/10)
The Park is a murky peninsula, surrounded on its wide sides [...]
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged African American History, Civil War, Coastal Fort, Fort, Georgia on February 3, 2005 | 2 Comments »
near Tybee Island, Ga.
Visited: February 3, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 143 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
One of 30 coastal forts built after the War of 1812 to protect the United States from foreign naval invasion. Fort Pulaski saw its only action early in 1861, during the start of the Civil War.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The pentagonal Fort Pulaski has [...]
Fort Frederica National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Colonization, England, Fort, Georgia, Georgian Ar, Ghost Town on February 2, 2005 | 3 Comments »
St. Simons Island, Ga.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 142 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
James Oglethorpe, leader and founder of the Georgia colony, began construction of Frederica Town in 1736. It was the southernmost outpost under British rule. Today, only the ruins remain.
BEAUTY (4/10)
Fort Frederica must have once been a beautiful little town [...]
Fort Caroline National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Huguenots, Jacksonville, New World, Spain on February 2, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Part of Timucuan Ecological and Historical PreserveJacksonville, Fla.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 139 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Reconstructed 16th-century fort that marks the brief Protestant French (Huguenot) presence along the southern Atlantic coast.
BEAUTY (2/10)
We asked the Ranger at Castillo de San Marcos NM why did the French sail to St. Augustine instead [...]
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Catholic, Colonial Hist, Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Protestant, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 2 Comments »
south of St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 137 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A Spanish stone masonry fortification finished in 1742 whose purpose was to guard the mouth of the Matanzas River, a back door channel into the important colonial city, Saint Augustine.
BEAUTY (6/10)
Fort Matanzas stands on Rattlesnake Island, a small [...]
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Cannons, Colonial History, Colonization, Florida, Fort, New World, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 3 Comments »
St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 138 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A massive stone masonry 17th-century Spanish fort built to protect the city of St. Augustine from British colonial invasion. The Castillo de San Marcos (St. Mark’s Castle) marked the northern-most settlement in Spain’s vast New World Empire.
BEAUTY (7/10)
We were immediately [...]
