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Fort Clinch

United States

Heritage status
National Register of Historic Places listed place
Location
Nassau County
Coordinates
30.70469°, -81.45446°
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Fort Clinch in the United States
Photo: Fl295 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Fort Clinch is a 19th-century masonry coastal fortification, built as part of the Third System of seacoast defense conceived by the United States. It is located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island in Nassau County, Florida. The fort lies to the northeast of Fernandina Beach at the entrance to the Cumberland Sound, in the northeast part of the state. Today it is included within the boundaries of Fort Clinch State Park.

Text adapted from “Fort Clinch” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Fort Clinch ranks #6,114 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #106 of the 120 mapped in United States. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,460 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.

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