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Image: Battery 245, Fort Stevens, Oregon - NARA - 299654

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Description: Scope and content: Beginning with the Civil War, the U.S. Army recognized a need to provide for coastal defenses in the Pacific NW along the Columbia River and in the Puget Sound. A number of forts, many no longer in service, were built for this purpose.
Title: Battery 245, Fort Stevens, Oregon
Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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