Historic Structure Report, Architectural Data: Advanced Redoubt of Fort Barrancas
Gjessing FC and Garner JC. 1975. Historic Structure Report, Architectural Data: Advanced Redoubt of Fort Barrancas. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Southeast Regional Office, Atlanta, Georgia
This historic structures report concerns the Advanced Redoubt of Fort Barrancas at Gulf Islands National Seashore. Advanced Redoubt sits just north of Fort Barrancas and was built to protect Fort Barrancas and the Navy Yard from a land attack. Construction began with enslaved labor in 1845 and was not completed until 1870 by free men, making it the last fort of the Third System Forts to be completed. Though redoubts are typically square, Advanced Redoubt was built as a trapezoid in order to defend the front and the rear of the structure. The report proposes stabilization and long-term preservation monitoring for Advanced Redoubt.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gjessing, Fredrick; Garner, John
- Date of Issue
- 1975-01
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GUIS , SER
- Keywords
- advanced redoubt, coastal defense, Florida, fort, Fort Barrancas, fortifications, GUIS, Gulf Islands National Seashore, historic structure report, masonry fort, military, Pensacola, redoubt, third system
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 005421: Advanced Redoubt, Fort Barrancas