User:Aweber47/sandbox

My National monument is the Castillo de San Marcos. The Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States (Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico is older). Located on the shore of Matanzas Bay in the city of St. Augustine, Florida, construction began in 1672, 107 years after the city's founding by Spanish Admiral and conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, when Florida was part of the Spanish Empire.

When I went to the fort it was all old and rusty. All that was left was the walls, some cannons, and the jails. The fort was cool. The fort had a lot of broken holes, tunels, and other cool things, also little secert rooms.

The fort had masonary walls that were strong enough to support heavy cannon on top and allow space for cannons top and allow space for cannons below, providing twice as many guns as earth and log forts of similar size. The walls were strong enough the hold cannons weight over so thousand pounds.

I learned the fort builders used Arches to hold up the roof so it could support cannons. I think the small pathways were cool because the builder showed alot of creativity.

Thats why i choosed Castillo De San Marcos for my National Monument

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