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Unnamed Battery

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Built
  
1862 (1862)

Opened
  
1862

Added to NRHP
  
11 August 1982

NRHP Reference #
  
82003846

Area
  
4,000 m²

Unnamed Battery

Location
  
Shaftsbury Townhouses, St. Andrew’s Parish, West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina

MPS
  
Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR

Unnamed Battery is a historic artillery battery located at West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1862, to protect the exterior western lines running from the Stono River on the south to the Ashley River at Bee’s Ferry. It has emplacements for two guns. It measures approximately 160 feet by 160 feet with a 10-foot parapet and a 15-foot powder magazine.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Unnamed Battery Wikipedia