Redoubt (South End)

The back and bottom of the redoubt circa 1910

This area was selected by U.S. Army engineers as the site for an earthwork (or redoubt) that would command the approaches to the shoreline on both sides of the Cattle Point peninsula. Extensive excavation went on here from August through October 1859, when General Winfield Scott's peaceful resolution of The Pig War crisis led work to stop on the Redoubt forever.