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After a massive Union assault captured Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865, orders came to spike Fort Caswell's guns, burn the barracks, and explode the magazines. On January 17, the magazines were ignited, exploding approximately 100,000 pounds of powder (reports at the time state that the blast could be heard as far as 100 miles away in ...
In addition to managing the facility, in 2020 the Friends of Fort Caswell Rifle Range arranged to publish Brunswick County in the Great War [7] Containing biographic sketches of all known Brunswick County NC WWI service members, the book features a 25 page introductory section with photos and diagrams along with text about the Caswell Beach ...
Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Watauga Association , a semi-autonomous government founded by American settlers living near the river, to defend the settlers against attacks from ...
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The grounds of the retreat, located adjacent to Caswell Beach on the eastern end of Oak Island, is the former site of Fort Caswell, a military base that was occupied by various branches of the U.S. armed forces for most of the period between 1836 and 1945. [1] Most people still refer to the Baptist Assembly as Fort Caswell.
Fort Ritchie; Catoctin Training Center; Fort Holabird; Fort Howard (Maryland) Fort Washington; Logan Field (Airport) (USAAF and POW Camp) Massachusetts Camp Candoit; Camp Havedoneit; Camp Myles Standish; Camp Washburn; Camp Wellfleet; Michigan Fort Brady; Chrysler Tank School; Minnesota Camp Savage; Fort Snelling (ARNG) Mississippi Camp Van ...
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park is a state park located in Elizabethton, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The park consists of 70 acres (28.3 ha) situated along the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, a National Historic Landmark where a series of events critical to the establishment of the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, and the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian frontier in general ...
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell (since 1949 home to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly) and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse.