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| [[Category:Oregon Forts]]
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| [[Category:Preserved]]
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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 July 1863. It was completed 8 Apr 1865 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 The garrison was withdrawn in 1882 and the post placed in the charge of an ordinance sergeant.
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| In 1897 Fort Stevens underwent a massive re-fortification program to improve coastal 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 armament had been removed. Oregon State Parks leased the old fort area in 1975 and is restoring and interpreting the fort.
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| '''Forts and Batteries on Fort Stevens'''
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| * Earthworks Fort - 1863
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| * [[:Image:Fort Stevens - 12.jpg|West Batteries]] - 1898
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| ** Walker
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| ** [[:Image:Fort Stevens - 14.jpg|Lewis]]
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| * Battery Clark - 1899
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| * Battery Mishler - 1900
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| * Battery Pratt - 1902
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| * Battery Freeman - 1902
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| * Battery Smur - 1902
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| * Battery Russell - 1904
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| * Battery 245 - 1942
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| {|
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| <gmap lat="46.206953" long="-123.962688" zoom="2" helper="on" width="500" height="400" type="hybrid">
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| 46.206953|-123.962688|Original Earthworks Fort
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| 46.207116|-123.971878|Battery 245
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| 46.207179|-123.970724|Battery Mishler
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| 46.207124|-123.967141|Battery Pratt
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| 46.207128|-123.968997|West Batteries (Walker and Lewis)
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| </gmap>
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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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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|46.206953|-123.962688}}
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| * Elevation: 602
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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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| ==Picture Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| Image:FortStevensBarracks 1954 8217.jpg|Barracks at Fort Stevens, 1954
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| Image:FortStevensGuardhouse 1954 8219.jpg|Guardhouse at Fort Stevens, 1954
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| Image:FortStevensQtrs 1962 4506.jpg|Officer Quarters at Fort Stevens, 1962
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| Image:Fort Stevens - 12.jpg|Batteries Pratt, Lewis and Walker at Fort Stevens, JStanton, Feb 2006
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| Image:Fort Stevens - 14.jpg|Battery Lewis at Fort Stevens, JStanton, Feb 2006
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| </gallery>
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