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Fort Jefferson is the third largest coastal defensive fort constructed by the United States – ever. |
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Fort Jefferson is made up of over 16 million bricks. |
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Construction of Fort Jefferson lasted over 30 years, and it was never officially finished. |
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In 1875 all work on Fort Jefferson stopped, the people left, and the fort was officially abandoned. |
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Fort Jefferson never saw action in a battle or military engagement. |
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Fort Jefferson’s walls are 45 feet tall and 8 feet thick. |
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The soldiers’ barracks at Fort Jefferson were designed to house 1,000 men, and were more than a football field in length. A fire destroyed the barracks in 1912. |
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The Fort was designed for 420 heavy guns on Fort Jefferson, and they were some of the largest and most advanced weapons of their age. |
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Fort Jefferson was designed to store gunpowder in 36 different magazines, all spread out throughout the Fort to make the powder more accessible although only 32 were completed. |
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Both red and yellow bricks make up Fort Jefferson. The yellow bricks were placed before the civil war and were from Pensacola, Florida. The red bricks were shipped to the island from Maine during the civil war. |
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J.N.O. Nolan, a master bricklayer who helped build Fort Jefferson, etched his name in several places throughout the fort. Keep an eye out for his carvings! |
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