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A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. [1] It is usually an isolated fort in the form of a single building, serving as a defensive strong point against any enemy that does not possess siege equipment or, in modern times, artillery , air ...
Fort Halifax is a former British colonial outpost on the banks of the Sebasticook River, just above its mouth at the Kennebec River, in Winslow, Maine. [1] Originally built as a wooden palisaded fort in 1754, during the French and Indian War, only a single blockhouse survives.
Block House front, facing north, April 2006 The Block House is a 17th-century historic building located off Naamans Road in Claymont, Delaware . The Block House is believed to be the only structure remaining of original Swedish colonial settlement on Naamans Creek .
Royal Blockhouse is a historic archaeological site located near Moreau, Saratoga County, New York.It was the site of a three-story, 90-feet square, blockhouse constructed in 1758 as part of the Fort Edward / Rogers Island complex.
It is the location of a palisaded stone blockhouse built in 1753 by Benjamin Burton, an Irish immigrant who came to what was then a frontier area in 1751. Burton's blockhouse was one of several colonial defensive positions on the Saint George River , occupying a position between present-day Thomaston , and Pleasant Point at the mouth of the river.
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
Fort Robinson (often spelled Robison or Robeson and frequently referred to in contemporary documents as George Robinson's Fort or simply Robinson's Fort) was a stockaded blockhouse fort built in 1755 in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania for the security of settlers moving into the area following the Albany Congress.
An earlier house on the site is said to have been a blockhouse during King Philip's War 1675–1677. [ 2 ] The Whipple–Jenckes House was constructed by Samuel Whipple beginning about 1750 when he inherited this property from his father, William Whipple, a direct descendant of John Whipple , one of the area's earliest settlers in the 1600s.