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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
Joseph Marion Hernández (May 26, 1788 – June 8, 1857) was a slave-owning American planter, politician and military officer. He was the first delegate from the Florida Territory and the first Hispanic American to serve in the United States Congress . [ 1 ]
USS San Marcos (LSD-25) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship the United States Navy, named for the Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort still standing in the United States. In 1911, the second-class battleship Texas had also briefly borne the name San Marcos , perhaps for the town of San Marcos, Texas .