Image: Fort Independence, Castle Island, South Boston
Description: <a href="http://www.nine3.com/MDC/history.html" target="_blank">Fort Independence</a>, Castle Island, South Boston. Quickly appreciated for its strategic location for the protection of Boston from sea attack, the first fortification on Castle Island was an earthwork and three cannon ordered in 1634 by Governor Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony. After the evacuating British destroyed the island's fortifications 1776, the fort was repaired by troops under the command of Lt. Paul Revere.
Title: Fort Independence, Castle Island, South Boston
Credit: Fort Independence, Castle Island, South Boston
Author: Paul Keleher from Mass, US
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