Fort Macon - Atlantic Beach, NC
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GA Cacher
N 34° 41.799 W 076° 40.724
18S E 346241 N 3840685
Quick Description: FORT MACON stands stately and weathered on an island at the southerly end of the outer banks of North Carolina. It is one of the finest examples of the many coastal forts constructed along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States after the War of 1812.
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 7/22/2008 8:05:33 PM
Waymark Code: WM48VF
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Long Description:Fort Macon State Park my wife Kathy and I loved our 1/2 day visit
here. The history can be felt as you tour and imagine the
conditions here. We were helped as it was one of the two per year
reenactment days. Plesae come visit this historic place.
Five-sided Fort Macon is constructed of brick and stone.
Twenty-six vaulted rooms are enclosed by outer walls that average 4
1/2 feet thick.
Blackbeard and other infamous pirates were known to have passed
through Beaufort Inlet at will while successive wars with Spain,
France and Great Britain during the Colonial Period provided a
constant threat of coastal raids by enemy warships. Beaufort was
captured and plundered by the Spanish in 1747 and again by the
British in 1782. The history of this Fort carries on. To learn more
follow thes links, please.
NC State Parks.
Friends of Fort Macon. This ia a good source
if information.
