Fort Barrancas
sits on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay. The natural
advantages of this location have inspired engineers of three nations to
build forts. The British built the Royal Navy Redoubt here in 1763 of
earth and logs. The Spanish built two forts here around 1797. Bateria de
San Antonio was a masonry water battery at the foot of the bluff. Above
it was earth and log Fort San Carlos de Barrancas. American engineers
remodeled the Water Battery in 1840 and built a masonry fort on the
bluff between 1839 and 1844, connected by a tunnel to the Water Battery.
This is the current Fort Barrancas. A $1.2 million, eighteen-month
restoration project led to its reopening in 1980.
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