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| [[Category:Oregon Forts]]
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| [[Category:State Park]]
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| [[Image:Fort Stevens.gif|300px|thumb|left|Fort Stevens Battery]][[Image:Fort Stevens Map.gif|250px|thumb|right|Fort Stevens Map]]
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| '''Fort Stevens (1865-1947)''' - Named for General [[Isaac Stevens]] a Governor of the Washington Territory. The fort was built under supervision of the United States Engineers starting in 1863, and was first occupied by a company of the [[Eighth California Volunteers]], 25 April 1865. The garrison was withdrawn in 1882 and the post placed in the charge of an ordinance sergeant. In 1897 Fort Stevens underwent a massive refortification program to improve costal defense that resulted in the construction of 8 concrete batteries around the original site.
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| Fort Stevens was further modified during World War II and had the distinction of being the only stateside installation attacked by enemy forces since the war of 1812 when a Japanese submarine I25 fired 17 shells close to the fort. After the war Fort Stevens was deactivated and by 1947 all the armement had been removed.
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| '''Location:''' Situated at the mouth of the Columbia River and located nine miles from Astoria in Clatsop County, Oregon.
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| * Latitude: 46.20056
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| * Longitude: -123.96972
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| '''Source:''' [[Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads]]
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.visitftstevens.com/history.htm Fort Stevens State Park]
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