Built 1861 (1861) Opened 1861 Added to NRHP 11 August 1982 | NRHP Reference # 82003842 Area 4,000 m² | |
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Location Christ Church Parish, Hamlin Sound, South Carolina MPS Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR Similar Fort Pemberton, Christ Church, Castle Pinckney, Folly Island, South Carolina Aquarium | ||
Fort Palmetto is a historic artillery battery located at Christ Church Parish, Hamlin Sound, Charleston County, South Carolina. 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 parapet wall and a powder magazine about 25 feet in height.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Fort Palmetto is now part of Fort Palmetto Park, a Town of Mount Pleasant park which opened in 2015.
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