United States · 19th century
Pāʻulaʻula State Historical Park is a National Historic Landmark just southeast of present-day Waimea on the island of Kauaʻi in Hawaiʻi. It is the last remaining Native Hawaiian fort on the Hawaiian Islands, built in the early 19th century by natives with an Italian-based design provided by a German traveler who arrived on a Russian-American Company ship, as a project of High Chief Kaumualiʻi. The star fort was employed by the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 19th century under the name Fort Hipo (Hawaiian: Pāʻulaʻula o Hipo).
Text adapted from “Russian Fort Elizabeth” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Russian Fort Elizabeth ranks #1,436 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #26 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1816, it is older than 11% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 717 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,833 times in the last 60 days, more than 88% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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