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Fort Adams, Newport, RI

90 Fort Adams Drive
Newport, RI 02840
United States

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A stone fort wall with an arched entrance rises behind a grassy area where an informational sign, an old cannon, and a picnic table sit under a bright blue sky.

Fort Adams

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Fort Adams, named after President John Adams, is a National Historic Landmark built between 1824 and 1857 and is the United States' most complex coastal fortification, with extensive land and sea defenses. Active through WWII, at the start of the Civil War it housed the underclassmen of the U.S. Naval Academy, -- then recently evacuated from Annapolis, Maryland.

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