Fort Santa Agueda
Fort Santa Agueda
Fort Santa Agueda is located in Guam
Fort Santa Agueda
Fort Santa Agueda
LocationGuam Highway 7, Hagåtña (Agana), Guam
Coordinates13°28′25″N 144°44′52″E / 13.47361°N 144.74778°E / 13.47361; 144.74778
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc.1800
NRHP reference No.74002301[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 30, 1974

Fort Santa Agueda, on Guam Highway 7 in Hagåtña (formerly Agana), Guam, dates from about 1800, during the 1784-1802 administration of Spanish governor Manuel Moro. It was an uncovered fort with a manposteria (coral stone and lime mortar) parapet, rising about 10 feet (3.0 m) above a sloping hillside. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, as the only remaining fortification of the Spanish Era in Hagåtña.[1][2]

The fort was mentioned in 1802 by an officer of an American whaling ship, who recorded that the fort had seven guns and ten men, and that it fired a salute when the governor entered a new church in Agana. Russian Otto von Kotzebue, in 1817, noted that it had only a few guns. It was in ruins by 1887. It was used by Americans as a signal station until 1933, and was converted to a gun emplacement by the Japanese occupiers during World War II.[2]

It became a park in 1960 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1][2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 David T. Lotz (January 8, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Santa Agueda". National Park Service. and accompanying photo from 1973


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