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Looking over ramparts from inside the fort
Curved rampart
Fort Norfolk battery from the water
 Fort Norfolk

Main Battery

Click on link to visit that area of the fort.

  1. Main Gate
  2. Dungeon or Black Hole
  3. Carpenter's Shop & Storeroom
  4. Underground Storage
  5. Officers Quarters/Shell House
  6. Covered Walkway
  7. Navy Magazine
  8. Rail Track
  9. Workshop
  10. Stable
  11. Soldiers' Barracks/Tank House
  12. Main Battery
  13. Guardhouse
  14. Cistern and Cistern House
Map of Fort Norfolk

Unlike most forts from the period before the War of 1812, Fort Norfolk was built with a distinctive semicircular battery and is the best surviving example of such a fort. The majority of the fort's 30 cannon were mounted on top of wooden platforms on this curved rampart which guarded the entrance to the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth.



 

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