Fort Pickens Tour: Stop 10

Fort Pickens Self-guided Tour Stop 10

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Fort Pickens, Florida

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Trailhead

Bastion A

You are entering a bastion through a side door called a postern. A bastion is a projection from the main wall of a fort. It allowed defenders to fire along a fort’s wall. Soldiers called this bastion Bastion A.

Like Bastion E, which you passed through earlier in this self-guided tour, Bastion A has casemates and embrasures for cannon. It also has a countermine with three tunnels and a powder magazine. The interior of this bastion looks much as it did in the 1800s.