Fort Travis Seashore Park
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Fort Travis Seashore Park is also the historic Fort Travis, a 60 acres military site with bunkers. The park is located in an area known as Bolivar Point, on the extreme west side of the Bolivar Penins
Fort Travis on Bolivar Peninsula
Texas historical marker for fort Travis
Texas historical marker for Bolivar Point
Fort Travis Seashore Park, Gun Platform
Seacoast defense was a major concern for the United States from its independence through World War II. Before airplanes, many of America's enemies could only reach it from the sea, making coastal fort
Fort Travis Seashore Park
…Fort Crockett Seacoast defense in the United States Board of Fortifications…
The outer works of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, although built in the 1860s, are broadly similar to early First and Second System forts built before the War of 1812, with low earthworks, although mounting much larger cannon and reinforced with masonry. The cannon are 8-inch converted rifles (lined down from 10-inch Rodman guns) and a 15-inch Rodman gun, typical of the post-Civil War era.
The Statue of Liberty is built on top of Fort Wood of the Second System
50-pounder Model 1811 Columbiad (7.25-inch or 184 mm bore) and center-pivot mounting designed by George Bomford as an experimental coastal defense gun. This gun was built in 1811 as a component of the Second System. Photographed in Clear Lake, Wisconsin.
Fort Point – San Francisco – example of a mid-1800s Third System fort