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Fort San Jose

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Built
  
1802 (1802)

Opened
  
1802

Added to NRHP
  
1 May 1974

NRHP Reference #
  
74002041

Area
  
8,000 m²

Nearest city
  
Umatac

Fort San Jose

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Fort San Jose is a former Spanish fortification on the island of Guam, now a United States territory. The fort was built about 1802 under the administration of Governor Blanco. Details of the fort's structure are not known, as it has been ruins since the 1850s. 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. 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).

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

References

Fort San Jose Wikipedia