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Meaher State Park is a public recreation area located on Big Island, [1] an island at the north end of Mobile Bay that lies within the city limits of Spanish Fort, Alabama. The state park occupies 1,327 acres (537 ha) along the shoreline of Ducker Bay, [ 2 ] at the junction of Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta . [ 3 ]
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding nations that controlled the area. The Spanish first built wooden buildings and a stockade in the late ...
Fort Alcatraz [1] San Francisco Bay: San Francisco: November 6, 1850: 1934: United States Army: Camp Alert: Pioneer Race Course: San Francisco: 1862: 1865: Union Army: Fort Anderson: Redwood Creek: Humboldt: 1862 1864: 1862 1866: Union Army: Fort Baker: near Bridgeville: Humboldt: March 23, 1862: November 1863: Union Army Lime Point Military ...
The Lime Point Tract Reservation is a historic name for Fort Baker, which became the new name in 1897. [ 2 ] The NRHP listing included one contributing building , 14 contributing structures and three contributing sites , with an area of 25 acres (10 ha).
The Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center is a state park in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. It is near Dubuque, the eleventh-largest city in the state. The park features picnic areas, 15 miles (24 km) of walking/hiking trails, 4 miles (6.4 km) of ski trails, and the Betty Hauptli Bird and Butterfly Garden.
Fort St. John and Fort St. Charles, north and east of New Orleans respectively [2] Spanish Fort , also known as Old Spanish Fort , Fort St. Jean , and Fort St. John ( Spanish : Fuerte de San Juan del Bayou ), is a historic place in New Orleans , Louisiana, formerly the site of a fort and later an amusement park .
Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (Fort Saint John of the Cross), most commonly known as El Cañuelo, was built on Isla de Cabras in the Palo Seco barrio of the municipality of Toa Baja, at the western end of the entrance to San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico. The square coastal fort has massive sandstone walls that date back to the 1630s. Although the U.S ...
Limekiln State Park is a California state park on the Big Sur coast. It contains four lime kilns from an 1887–1890 lime-calcining operation, plus a beach, redwood forest, and 100-foot (30 m) Limekiln Falls. [1] It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Lucia on Big Sur Coast Highway. The 711-acre (288 ha) park was established in 1994. [2]