Fort Palmetto

Fort Palmetto
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Christ Church Parish, Hamlin Sound, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°49′23″N 79°45′56″W / 32.82306°N 79.76556°WCoordinates: 32°49′23″N 79°45′56″W / 32.82306°N 79.76556°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1861
MPS	Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR
NRHP Reference #	82003842[1]
Added to NRHP	August 11, 1982

Fort Palmetto is a historic artillery battery located at Christ Church Parish, Hamlin Sound, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built in late-1861, and was at the easternmost end of the Christ Church Parish line of defense. At the end of the war this battery mounted one nine-inch gun and two rifled thirty-two pounders. The earthen redoubt measures approximately 160 feet long and 80 feet wide. It has a 15 foot high parapet wall and a powder magazine about 25 feet in height.^[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

Fort Palmetto is now part of Fort Palmetto Park, a Town of Mount Pleasant park which opened in 2015.

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. unknown (n.d.). "Fort Palmetto" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
3. "Fort Palmetto, Charleston County (Christ Church Parish)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.