Fortress
Fort Pickens
🇺🇸 United States · 19th century
Fort Pickens is a historic pentagonal United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens. It is the largest of four forts built to defend Pensacola Bay and its navy yard. The fort was completed in 1834 and was one of the few forts in the South that remained in Union hands throughout the American Civil War. It remained in use until 1947. Fort Pickens is included within the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and as such, is administered by the National Park Service.
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Fort Pickens ranks #2,346 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #62 of the 98 mapped in United States. Founded 1834, it is older than 12% 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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