Fort Ninigret

Fort Neck Rd., Charlestown, Rhode Island. County/parish: Washington.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 28, 1970. NRIS 70000004.

1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.

Also known as:

The Niantic Fort

From Wikipedia:

Fort Ninigret is a historic fort and trading post site at Fort Neck Road in Charlestown, Rhode Island, built and occupied by European settlers in the seventeenth century. At its 1883 dedication, Commissioner George Carmichael, Jr. referred to it as "the oldest military post on the Atlantic coast."

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375675