Photos tagged as forts
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We break for walled cities! This one's Chester
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Staigue Fort
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Rob on Edge
of the Aran Island Ring Fort
- Date: 12 June 2008
- Photographer: jennrob: gallery
- Location: Ireland: gallery
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Navan Fort Hill
- Date: 3 June 2008
- Photographer: jennrob: gallery
- Location: Ireland: gallery
- Tags: forts archaeology
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2nd Trip - View from Fort Popham
This is an old, civil war era coastal fortification. It is in worse shape then many we've seen.
- Date: 8 May 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Bath, USA: gallery
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2nd Trip - Fort Popham
This is a civil war/WW I era coastal fortification. It is directly across the channel from Fort Baldwin, where they found the location of the original Popham Colony.
- Date: 8 May 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Bath, USA: gallery
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From Atop Beynac
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Chateau de Beynac
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Castelnaud Catapults
Reconstructed siege machines
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Castelnaud Chateau
Viewed from the road below
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, WWII Barracks
This is now a large field, but during WWII held many buildings used as housing (barracks?) for soldiers stationed at Fort Stevens
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Searchlight
Some old military equipment is on display at the fort, especially near the Museum, including this searchlight. It was used during WWII to look for enemy aircraft at night.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Old Shipwreck Closeup
This shipwreck is on the beach at Fort Stevens and is a popular destination for people visiting the park.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Old Shipwreck
This is all that's left of the Peter Iredale, a four masted British sailing ship that was wrecked on Oregon's coast October 25, 1906. All 27 crew and two stowaway's were rescued.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Model of Barracks
This is what the barracks area looked like when Fort Stevens was in active use, not the empty field it is today.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Gun Battery
Many of the large concrete gun batteries are still in place, although most of the guns have been removed.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Stevens, Columbia River Mouth
This is the mouth of the Columbia River, graveyard of many ships.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Visitors Center
Fort Clatsop was built by the Lewis & Clark Expedition to stay in during the winter of 1805-1806. The Visitors Center has a very nice museum/interpretive area and a gift shop with such things as steel & flint fire starting kits, replica's of some of the items the expedition would have carried.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Mom In Snow
Snow is very unusual here, so much so that the Rangers ran out with camera's to capture the moment. Mom borrowed an electric cart to tour the replica Fort.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Mom In Fort
Mom actually braved the now to visit the replica Fort, but probably stayed less than 5 minutes in it.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Fireplace
The first replica of Fort Clatsop used stone fireplaces. When this burned down a couple of years ago, the Fort was rebuilt using additional research, so now had some sort of earthen fireplace.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Chimney
While the inside of the chimney is lined with some sort of mud/mortar mix, I think I'd still be nervous about using a wood chimney.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Fort Clatsop, Cabin
The replica cabins have been furnished using available research, they are pretty sparce, even the Captains cabin.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Astoria, OR
You can tell from the weather, this wasn't the best time to visit Astoria, featured in the movie "Kindergarten Cop"
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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Day 207 - Astoria Bridge
The Astoria-Megler bridge is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America, at 21, 474 feet long (6,545m). It was the last segment of Hwy 101 completed in the US.
- Date: 26 March 2008
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Astoria, USA: gallery
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