{"nrhp_refnum":"66000064","name":"Fort Pulaski National Monument","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"17 mi. W of Savannah, Cockspur Island","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.02851726550003,"lon":-80.89713388714473,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River near Savannah, Georgia, centered on a brick coastal fortification built 1829-1847 and several related structures and sites on the island.","why_significant":"The fort is described as the best preserved and most original of the eastern coastal forts designed by Simon Bernard for the Army Corps of Engineers. Its rapid reduction by rifled artillery in 1862 made masonry forts obsolete, which gives it major military significance. It is also noted for its engineering and the quality of its masonry and joinery.","narrative":"Fort Pulaski occupies Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River, where it was built between 1829 and 1847 to guard Savannah from attack by sea. The five-sided brick fort has walls 7½ feet thick, a triangular demilune and a wet moat, and it sits within a system of dikes and drainage ditches. It was one of a chain of coastal forts designed by French engineer Simon Bernard for the Army Corps of Engineers. In 1862 Federal rifled artillery reduced the fort quickly, a result that made masonry forts obsolete. Other resources on the island include brick cisterns and workmen's village foundations from the construction years, a granite pier of 1829-30, the Cockspur Island Lighthouse of about 1840, Battery Horace Hambright of about 1895, a quarantine station residence of about 1896, and a 1950 memorial to John Wesley's 1736 landing. Restoration in the 1930s left the fort in excellent condition, with siege damage still visible.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (construction 1829-47; garrisoned 1861-72; briefly 1890s)","architect_builder":"Simon Bernard (French military engineer, designer of the fort system, for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers); Edward Jones, Architect of Albany, GA (John Wesley Memorial)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Fort in excellent condition after extensive National Park Service restoration in the 1930s; exterior unaltered; interpreted to the public as a national monument.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.215808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/66000064.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000064/ec4e189c37-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000064/ec4e189c37-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Edibobb","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortPulaski02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Edibobb</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortPulaski02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207304","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438683"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/fort-pulaski-national-monument-66000064/"}