Fort James Jackson

Fort James Jackson

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caption =
location= Islands Expwy., Savannah, Georgia
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 4
lat_seconds = 55
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 81
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 10
long_direction = W
locmapin = USA Georgia
area =
built =1811
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated_nhl= February 16, 2000cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-496707937&ResourceType=Structure
title=Fort James Jackson |accessdate=2008-04-30|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = February 18, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=70000200

Fort James Jackson, also known as Fort Jackson Maritime Museum or Fort Oglethorpe is fort built during 1808-1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia.

During the American Civil War it was shelled by a ship captained by escaped slave Robert Smalls.

William T. Sherman captured Savannah by land, not by sea.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/70000200.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination: Fort James Jackson / Fort Oglethorpe] |32 KB|date=August 21, 1998 |author=Jefferson C. Reed and Mark R. Barnes|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/70000200.pdf "Accompanying five photos, exterior and interior, from 1998"] |32 KB]

It is located at 1 Fort Jackson Road, or on Islands Expressway.

References

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va0000 __: __ photos, __drawings, __data pages and supplemental material] , at Historic American Building Survey


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