Fort+Point+History

As we walked down the road we came to a building. It was Fort Point. Wow, It’s huge, I thought!! I saw tiny rectangles with bars crossing them. “Rifle slits!!!!” I said. My partners were as amazed as I was. We looked up and saw cannons peeking over the top of the wall. It was awesome.

Fort Point was built between 1853 and 1861. Fort Point was made to mount 126 massive cannons, but it only had 69 cannons in all. Eight years after it was built, 103 cannons were dismounted for scrap metal.

In 1850, Fort Point was the San Francisco’s biggest brick building. People even lived there!! In 1861, the army mounted the fort’s first cannon. No guns were fired during the Civil War. In 1768, Spain took over Fort Point. Now in 2011, it is a historic landmark that you can go visit and learn more about its history and what happened there.

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