The first fortifications on the site began in 1736, but it wasn't until almost a century later that Fort Clinch as we know it today began to take shape.

Fort Clinch is a 19th-century masonry coastal fortification, built as part of the Third System of seacoast defense conceived by the United States. History · Photos

Fort Clinch began in 1847. It is one of a series of masonry forts constructed between 1816 and 1867 known as the Third System Fortifications.

Construction on historic Fort Clinch started in 1847 by the federal government and continued during the Civil War. occupied by Confederate forces when the ...

The history of Fort Clinch dates back nearly 300 years, beginning with initial fortifications in 1736. The modern structure started taking shape in 1847, ...

1 июл. 2022 г. · In order to protect the coast of southern Georgia, civilians and the army corps came together in 1847 to begin construction of the fort.

St. Marks, Florida | During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers built earthworks and placed artillery at this fort, which was threatened in March 1865...

Its 1,100 acres (4 km2) include the 19th-century Fort Clinch, sand dunes, plains, maritime hammock and estuarine tidal marsh.

Fort Clinch is the only Third System fort on Florida's Atlantic Coast. Begun in 1847 and never completed as planned, it stands in Fernandina Beach on the ...

9 янв. 2024 г. · Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.