Fort Barrancas

Fort Barrancas (1839) or Fort San Carlos de Barrancas (from 1787) is a United States military fort and National Historic Landmark in the former Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida, located physically within Naval Air Station Pensacola, which was developed later around it.

The hill-top fort, connected to a sea level water battery,

overlooks Pensacola Bay. From 1839 to 1844, the historic Spanish fort on the hill was reconstructed and dramatically expanded in brick. The older, water battery downhill (Bateria de San Antonio, 1787) has been separately named as "Fort San Carlos".

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Fort Barrancas ranks #2,666 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #75 of the 98 mapped in United States. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.

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