Fort San Carlos was a military structure built in 1816 to defend the Spanish colonial town of Fernandina, Florida, now called Old Town, which occupied a peninsula on the northern end of Amelia Island. The fort, a lunette fortification,[1] stood on the southwest side of the town next to the harbor, on a bluff overlooking the Amelia River. It was made of wood and earthworks, backed with a wooden palisade on the east side, and armed with an eight or ten gun battery. Two blockhouses protected access by land on the south, while the village was surrounded with military pickets. An 1821 map of Fernandina shows that the street plan, laid out in 1811 in a grid pattern by the newly appointed Surveyor General of Spanish East Florida, George J. F. Clarke, today preserves nearly the same layout as that of 1821. The fort occupied the area bounded by the streets Calle de Estrada, Calle de White, and Calle de Someruelos. The structure itself has disappeared and only traces remain in what is now Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park.
The park contains the largest known undeveloped portion of the site of Spanish municipal and military activity on Amelia Island dating from the late 1780s. Archaeological investigations, starting in the early 1950s, revealed intermittent occupation and use of the area for as long as 4,000 years, beginning in the Orange period (2000–500 BC) and continuing to this day.[2] A Spanish sentinel house was built in 1696 at the Timuqua village located there.[3] Nearly all of Old Town was built on this Indian village and its shell heaps.[4] In later colonial times the site gained military importance because of its deep harbor and its strategic location near the northern boundary of Spanish Florida.
^John W. Griffin; Patricia C. Griffin (1996). Fifty Years of Southeastern Archaeology: Selected Works of John W. Griffin. University Press of Florida. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8130-1420-3.
^Ripley P. Bullen; John W. Griffin (December 1952). "An Archaeological Survey of Amelia Island, Florida". Florida Anthropologist. 5 (3–4). Gainesville: Florida Anthropological Society: 37. ISSN 0015-3893. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
^Notes in Anthropology. University Presses of Florida. 1965. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
^Hale G. Smith; Ripley P. Bullen. "Fort San Carlos". Tallahassee: Department of Anthropology Florida State University. p. 49. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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