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  2. Fort Caswell Historic District - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Fort Caswell Rifle Range - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Caswell Rifle Range located in Caswell Beach NC, is a discontiguous part of Fort Caswell which defended Confederate positions on the North Carolina coast during the Civil War and served both as an army training ground in World War I and a patrol/ communications base in World War II.

  4. Fort Watauga - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. North Carolina Baptist Assembly - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Hatch Auditorium - Wikipedia

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    Hatch Auditorium is a facility of the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell. The auditorium is situated next to the old Fort Caswell and faces the parade ground. Construction of the auditorium was made possible by a gift from Rachel E. Hatch upon her death in October 1966.

  7. Caswell - Wikipedia

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    Caswell (surname), a list of people with the surname Caswell J. Crebs (1912–1988), American jurist Caswell Silver (1916–1988), American geologist and entrepreneur

  8. File:Fort Caswell–Battery McKavett & McDonough.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. Watauga Association - Wikipedia

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    Since no copy of the Articles of the Watauga Association has ever been found, most of what is known about it comes from other sources, primarily the 1776 Petition of the Inhabitants of the Washington District, commonly called the "Watauga Petition," in which the Wataugans requested annexation by North Carolina.