Fort Taber

This fort was built from 1892 to 1898 and in 1920 it was expanded. During the Second World War, the fort was reactivated and formed a part of the coastal defence of the United States.

It was built on the site of the old Fort Rodman which was designed by Robert E. Lee, as were several other forts on the East Coast of the U.S. and elsewhere, in the pre-Civil War days when he still was in the U.S. Army. Fort Rodman is also is still there and it was a real deterrent to the South during the Civil War. Both Fort Rodman and Fort Phoenix, which is across the mouth of the inlet, guarded New Bedford, one of the major seaports in the country. Fort Phoenix was built to guard the harbor from the British during the American Revolution.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Marc N. Belanger