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Fort Clinch State Park, 2601 Atlantic Avenue, Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, FL

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Fort Clinch State Park, 2601 Atlantic Avenue, Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, FL

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Addendum was an entry in the 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient.
Significance: Fort Clinch is one of the most well-preserved nineteenth-century forts in the country. Although no battles were fought here, it was garrisoned during both the Civil and Spanish-American wars. During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps began preserving and rebuilding many of the structures of the abandoned fort. (http://www.floridastateparks.org/fortclinch/)

Fort Clinch State Park is significant in the early twentieth-century history of Florida as one of the nine state park units created through state planning for natural resource conservation, recreation, and tourism during the New Deal era.
Survey number: HALS FL-8
Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1937- ca. 1940 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000343

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1940
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fernandina beach
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Library of Congress
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