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Virginia, Fort

Description: Fort Virginia: 1812-15, Jefferson County, Sackets Harbor. A minor redoubt of 16 guns in a fortified line of 4 such "forts" (Kentucky, Virginia, Chauncey, Stark) anchored at Fort Pike on the Bay (later Madison Barracks) protecting the land side of Sackets Harbor. South side Washington Street, west of Broad Street.
County: Jefferson
City, State: Sackets Harbor, New York
Conflict/Time Period: 1812-181