Fort Matanzas (Fla. : Fort)
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Matance's Fort (Fla.)
Matanzas Tower (Fla.)
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Sources
found: NUCMC data from Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division for English military report on St. Augustine, 1743(Matance's Fort; Florida)
found: Encyc. of historic forts, c1988:p. 185, etc. (under Florida: Fort Matanzas; as early as 1569 a wooden blockhouse was built on the site; ca. 1736 saw the construction of Matanzas Tower, a strong bastion built of coquina rock; the fort ruin, designated a National Monument by presidential proclamation (1924) was transferred from the War Dept. to the National Park Service in 1933)
found: GNIS, May 14, 2007 (Fort Matanzas, ppl.)
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Change Notes
2007-04-27: new
2007-06-01: revised
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