Fort King George & Museum

Trinidad and Tobago / Tobago / Scarborough / Fort Street , 84
 museum, fortification
This fortification was built by the english in 1777-79. After the treaty of Paris in 1814 there where 600 soldiers there. After 1854 it used as prison. In 1926 a water tank was built there. Since 1965 it is like a park with 6 guns in place. The old military hospital houses now the National Fine Arts Centre. The former barracks are now the Tobago Museum, phone 639-3970, open monday to friday from 9am to 5pm, entry 5 TT $.
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Coordinates:   11°10'39"N   60°43'37"W

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