| 词条 | Fort San Jose |
| 释义 |
| name = Fort San Jose | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | nearest_city= Umatac, Guam | coordinates = {{coord|13|17|57|N|144|39|21|E|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Guam | built = {{Start date|1802}} | architect OR builder = | architecture = | added = May 1, 1974 | area = {{convert|2|acre}} | governing_body = State | refnum = 74002041[1] }} Fort San Jose is a former Spanish fortification on the island of Guam, now a United States territory. It is located north of the village of Umatac, on a hill over looking both Fouha Bay and Umatac Bay, the place were Spanish galleons traveling between Manila in the Spanish Philippines and Acapulco, Mexico stopped for water and supplies. HistoryThe fort was built about 1802 under the administration of Vicente Blanco, Governor of the Marianas. The route which the fort protected fell out of use in 1815 with Mexican independence, and it has been ruins since the 1850s. The fort site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1] ArchitectureThe surviving foundational elements of the fort shape a wide semicircle, whose walls were about {{convert|2|ft|m}} thick at the base, and now rise in places to a height of {{convert|4|ft|m}}. The remains of a watchtower stands {{convert|36|ft|m}} southeast of the fort; its surviving walls rise to a height of about {{convert|5|ft|m}}.[2] See also
References1. ^1 {{NRISref|version=2010a}} {{National Register of Historic Places}}{{Guam-NRHP-stub}}2. ^{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=74002041}}|title=NRHP nomination for Fort San Jose|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2015-05-16}} 6 : Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam|Buildings and structures completed in 1802|Forts on the National Register of Historic Places|19th century in Guam|Fortifications of the Spanish East Indies|1802 establishments in the Spanish Empire |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。