- Type
- Fortress
- Built
- 1809 · 19th century
- Location
- South Carolina, United States
- Coordinates
- 32.7594°, -79.8578°
History
The first fort, of palmetto logs and sand, was built here in 1776 by Americans under Colonel William Moultrie. On 28 June that year his garrison beat off an attack by Sir Peter Parker's British fleet, one of the first major victories of the War of Independence. A second fort of the 1790s was destroyed by a hurricane in 1804, and the present brick fort was completed in 1809. In December 1860 Major Robert Anderson moved his garrison from here to Fort Sumter, which Confederate guns at Moultrie then bombarded in 1861. The fort was updated right up to the Second World War and was handed to the National Park Service in 1960.
What to see
The brick walls of 1809 contain later layers of fortification, and the displays run in chronological order: from a reconstruction of the 1776 palmetto stockade, through Civil War guns and batteries from around 1900, to the Second World War harbour entrance control post. The grave of Osceola lies by the gate, and the ramparts overlook the harbour mouth and Fort Sumter.
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