Fort San Jose

Fort San Jose is a former Spanish fortification on the island of Guam, now a United States territory. It is located north of the village of Umatac, on a hill over looking both Fouha Bay and Umatac Bay, the place were Spanish galleons traveling between Manila in the Spanish Philippines and Acapulco, Mexico stopped for water and supplies.

Fort San Jose
Nearest cityUmatac, Guam
Coordinates13°17′57″N 144°39′21″E
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1802 (1802)
NRHP reference No.74002041[1]
Added to NRHPMay 1, 1974

History

The fort was built about 1802 under the administration of Vicente Blanco, Governor of the Marianas. The route which the fort protected fell out of use in 1815 with Mexican independence, and it has been ruins since the 1850s.

The fort site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Architecture

The surviving foundational elements of the fort shape a wide semicircle, whose walls were about 2 feet (0.61 m) thick at the base, and now rise in places to a height of 4 feet (1.2 m). The remains of a watchtower stands 36 feet (11 m) southeast of the fort; its surviving walls rise to a height of about 5 feet (1.5 m).[2]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Fort San Jose". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
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