Category:Fort Warren (Massachusetts)

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Fort Warren 
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LocationBoston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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Map42° 19′ 13.01″ N, 70° 55′ 40.01″ W
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Wikidata Q2287837
VIAF ID: 128018005
Library of Congress authority ID: n97123814
J9U ID: 987007535786705171
Structurae structure ID: 20027608
NRHP reference number: 70000540
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English: Fort Warren (Massachusetts) is a historic fort on the 28-acre (110,000 m2) Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is named for Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren, who sent Paul Revere on his famous ride, and was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The name was transferred in 1833 from the first Fort Warren – built in 1808 – which was renamed Fort Winthrop. The current Fort Warren is a pentagonal bastion fort, made with stone and granite, and was constructed from 1833–1861, completed shortly after the beginning of the American Civil War. Fort Warren defended the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1861 through the end of World War II, and during the Civil War served as a prison for Confederate officers and government officials. The fort remained active through the Spanish–American War and World War I, and was re-activated during World War II. It was permanently decommissioned in 1947, and is now a tourist site. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as a masterpiece of coastal engineering of the pre-Civil War period, and for its role in the Civil War.


This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 70000540.

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