![]() "Built 1826-1836, Cost $473,402, Named for Richard Caswell, First Governor of North Carolina" |
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![]() Battery Caswell (two 12" guns on barbette carriages). Also Old Battery Madison (one 4.72" Armstrong quick firing gun) located next to Caswell #1. N 33°53.587 W078°01.005 {see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. pages 136 and 86} |
![]() Emplacements converted into swimming pools. |
Wide view of Old Fort Caswell.
Oak Point viewed from Bald Head Lighthouse. (Oak Island Lighthouse at left -
Fort Caswell behind cargo ship).
Other GPS positions:
Fort Caswell Quartermaster Wharf N 33°53.766 W078°00.989
Oak Island Lighthouse N 33°53.569 W078°02.096 (USCGS)
Oak Island Tower N 33°53.517 W078°02.010 (USCGS "CG Lookout")
Oak Island 1886 wooden lighthouse N 33°53.540 W078°01.776 (USCGS)
Prices Creek Lighthouse N 33°56.165 W077°59.383 (USCGS "Bug Lt")
Bald Head Lighthouse N 33°52.412 W078°00.022 (USCGS)
Cape Fear Coast Artillery Tower (Bald Head) N 33°52.072 W078°00.469 (USCGS)
Fort Johnston (Southport) N 33°55.046 W078°01.036 (USCGS "Garrison")
Fort Anderson (Brunswick Town) N 34°02.400 W077°56.659
Battery Holmes (Bald Head) site undetermined