Fort Barrancas

Fort Barrancas

This is a historical fort that was full of tunnels. Pensacola, Florida.
The site of Fort Barrancas has been involved in numerous events over the past five centuries:
•1559-1561: when Spanish Pensacola is first settled on Santa Rosa Island, the site is just a hilltop that looks across the water to the island;
•1698: the site becomes Fort San Carlos de Austria;
•1719: Fort San Carlos de Austria is completely destroyed by the French;
•1763: under British rule, the site becomes the Royal Navy Redoubt built of earth & logs;
•1787: under Spanish rule (from 1781), the sea-level battery is built of masonry, becoming the Bateria de San Antonio;
•1787-1797: under Spanish rule, a wooden and earthen structure is added on the hill-top bluff, overlooking the battery, as Fort San Carlos de Barrancas;
•1814: Fort San Carlos de Barrancas is blown up by the evacuating British, as Andrew Jackson approaches;
•1817: under Spanish rule, fort San Carlos de Barrancas is rebuilt;
•1839-1844: under U.S. rule (from 1821), the woooden hill-top structure is replaced with a massive brick fortress connected via tunnel to the battery (remodeled 1838), becoming Fort Barrancas;
•1861: under Confederate rule, Fort Barrancas is bombarded from Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, with heaviest attacks on November 22-23 and January 7, 1862;
•1862: in May, the site and Pensacola are abandoned to the Union troops (after the fall of New Orleans);
•1941-1947: Fort Barrancas is used by the U.S. Army as a signal station and small arms range; the fort is deactivated April 15, 1947;
•1966: Fort Barrancas Historical District (640 acres) enters the National Register of Historical Places, as district #66000263.
•1978-1980: Fort Barrancas is restored during an 18-month project and opened to the public as a National Historic Landmark.

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