Fortress
Fort McClary
🇺🇸 United States · 19th century
Fort McClary is a former defensive fortification of the United States military located along the southern coast at Kittery Point, Maine at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. It was used throughout the 19th century to protect approaches to the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery. The property and its surviving structures are now owned and operated by the State of Maine as Fort McClary State Historic Site, including a blockhouse dating from 1844.
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Fort McClary ranks #2,989 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #87 of the 98 mapped in United States. Founded 1808, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 407 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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