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Cistern House
 Fort Norfolk

Cistern and Cistern House

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  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

The cistern, designed to hold 90,000 gallons of water, is constructed of masonry and was completed at the end of 1856. Access to the cistern is through a trap door in the floor of the cistern house, which was built after the Civil War. Originally, rainwater from the Navy Magazine's gutters fed directly into the cistern.



 

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