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Soldiers barracks/tank house
 Fort Norfolk

Soldiers Barracks/Tank 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

This 1810 building was described in 1824 as a "one and a half story soldier barracks, containing three ground and three upper rooms -- at one end a bake house." The Navy also had this structure renovated for ordnance purposes, using it for filling cartridge bags with powder, putting them into watertight copper tanks for shipboard use, and storing empty powder barrels.



 

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