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Fort Warren (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Hull / Boston, Massachusetts
 fortification, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, star fort, American Civil War 1861-1865, U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Fort Warren defended the harbor at Boston, Massachusetts, for over 100 years. It served as a prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.

The fort was originally built in 1807 under the Second System as a star shaped masonry work mounting twelve guns. This fort was re-built as part of the Third System of fortifications beginning in 1833.

As of 1851, it was intended to be armed with sixty-two 42-pounder seacoast guns, one hundred thirty-seven 32-pounder seacoast guns, fifty-eight 24-pounder guns, twenty-three flank howitzers, thirty 8" heavy seacoast howizters, eight 13" mortars and sixteen 10" heavy mortars, for a total of 334 guns.

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home.comcast.net/~jay.schmidt/ft.warren/

www.bostonislands.org/isle_georges.asp
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Warren_(Massachusetts)
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Coordinates:   42°19'13"N   70°55'39"W
This article was last modified 4 years ago