Fort Palmetto is a historic

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located at Christ Church Parish,

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. It was built in late 1861, and was at the easternmost end of the Christ Church Parish line of defense. At the end of the war this battery mounted one nine-inch gun and two rifled thirty-two pounders. The earthen redoubt measures approximately 160 feet long and 80 feet wide. It has a 15 foot high

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wall and a powder magazine about 25 feet in height. It was listed on the

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in 1982. Fort Palmetto is now part of Fort Palmetto Park, a Town of Mount Pleasant park which opened in 2015 and is located within th
subdivision community of Oyster Point.

References

4.) Battle Ground Trust

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