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Fort St CatherineFort St Catherine is a coastal artillery fort at the north-east tip of St George's Island in Bermuda. Successively redeveloped, the fort was used first by Bermudian Militia and then by regular Royal Artillery units from 1612 into the 20th Century. Today it houses a museum. The first fort here was a wooden fort built by the Virginia Company in 1612, just three years after the wwreck of the Sea Venture. It was replaced by a stone fort in 1614. As one of the oldest fortifications in the English-speaking New World, Fort St Catherine is today part of a UNESCO World Geritage Site. (Read more) |
