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In 1924, Fort Marion was designated as a National Monument. In 1933 it was transferred to the National Park Service from the War Department . In 1942, in honor of its Spanish heritage, Congress authorized renaming the fort as Castillo de San Marcos .
On January 7, 1861, roughly 125 militiamen, including 25 from the town of Fernandina, came to capture Fort Marion, a coquina fort built by the Spanish between 1672 and 1695. The lone United States army sergeant guarding the fort gave the Southerners the keys after demanding, and receiving, a receipt from the Confederacy.
Fort Marion was launched on 22 May 1945 by Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Alabama, sponsored by Mrs. Louise S. Dodson; and commissioned on 29 January 1946.. Fort Marion arrived at San Diego her home port, 26 May 1946, and through the next three years repaired landing craft, carried cargo and landing craft between San Diego and San Francisco, and took part in amphibious training exercises ...
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Pages in category "Native Americans imprisoned at Fort Marion" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
English: Title: Fort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida Abstract: Poster shows view of Fort Marion (Castillo de San Marcos). Physical description: 1 print (poster) : screen, color ; 48 x 36 cm. Notes: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).; Title from item.
Grey Beard (died 1875) was a Southern Cheyenne medicine man and chief.Among the Native American leaders and civilians rounded up at the end of the Red River War to be transported as a prisoner of war to Fort Marion in Florida, he is one of two who died during the incarceration.
Interior view of Fort Marion Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Date: between 1861 and 1869 ... The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file ...