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The one on the north is used for offices. The other single officers quarters are now used as the residence for the college president. Barracks Building has lost its porches and is a classroom building.
A second barracks across the parade ground was lost in a fire in the s. Condition of the Individual Elements: A number of the buildings have been altered but most are in good condition. The grounds are also well cared for. Fort Preble Harbor Defenses of Portland. Date of Visit: June Public Access: The campus and shoreway are open to the public with no fee. Dates and Hours of Operation: Daily from sunrise to sunset, year around. The Portland Harbor Museum, located on site, carries some books related to fortifications.
Tactical Structures: North Battery—s: The concrete, earth-covered powder magazines survive in good condition, but their entrances are blocked.
Other Tactical Structures: DPF Building-year has been demolished but the concrete pillar for the DPF survives and is used as a coast artillery memorial and as a base for a remote weather camera for a local television station. Non-Tactical Structures: Quartermaster Wharf has been rebuilt several times of the years. Two-Bay Garage at the end of the North Battery was formerly the blacksmith shop.
Ordnance Garage, east of the Ordnance Machine Shop. Quartermaster Store House has a wooden addition. Guard House has lost its dormer and is now attached to the student center, used as a bookstore. Soldiers from the fort saw action when Confederate Army raiders entered Portland Harbor on June 26, , aboard a captured ship named Archer.
They were pursued by two steamers carrying soldiers and artillery pieces from Fort Preble, as well as about civilian volunteers. Light wind made escape impossible and the Confederates abandoned the Caleb Cushing in boats after setting the ship on fire.
The fire detonated the ship's magazines and the Cushing was destroyed by the explosion. Twenty-three Confederate prisoners were captured and taken to Fort Preble. They remained at Fort Preble until they were transferred to prisoner of war camps. Andrews was a native of Rhode Island who was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 1st Missouri Infantry at the start of the war.
He was mustered out of volunteer service in September and was commissioned in the Regular Army as the major of the 17th Infantry.
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in In January he was promoted to colonel and assigned as commander of the 25th Infantry , one of the Regular Army's four African-American regiments at the time. He commanded the 25th Infantry for 21 years until he retired from the Army in On 15 July , Billy Laird, a private in the 17th Maine Regiment, was executed by firing squad at Fort Preble after being charged with desertion.
President Abraham Lincoln pardoned Laird but the telegraph message never got through due to the fact the telegraph wires in New York City which relayed the message from Washington, D. Laird was the only Maine soldier in the Civil War to be executed for desertion. Construction on a major expansion of Fort Preble was undertaken during the Civil War.
The old star fort remained to cover the land approach, and new granite casemates typical of the Third System were to be built on the three water sides of the fort. Only a single tier of guns was projected. This project was abandoned incomplete, with some of the casemates remaining to the present. In the s Fort Preble was modernized under the supervision of Army engineer Thomas Lincoln Casey , who is best known for overseeing the completion of the Washington Monument.
These improvements included added emplacements for large caliber guns typically 8-inch converted rifles behind earthen parapets, as masonry walls were found to be ineffective against rifled artillery shells. In — several modern Endicott era coast defense batteries were installed at the fort as part of the Coast Defenses of Portland , which also included Fort Williams , Fort McKinley , and Fort Levett.
The star fort was demolished to make room for these batteries. Batteries Kearny and Chase totaled sixteen inch mortars mm and were completed in These were named for Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny of the Mexican—American War and Lt. Colonel Constantine Chase of the Civil War. Originally all sixteen mortars were Battery Kearny, but Battery Chase was named in , with each battery comprising eight mortars.
They were followed in by Battery Rivardi with two " disappearing " 6-inch mm guns and Battery Mason with one 3-inch 76 mm gun. Battery Rivardi was named for John J. Mason, an artillery officer killed in the Civil War. The fort remained active through World War I , but was partially disarmed as part of a program to send heavy artillery and railway artillery to the Western Front.
Battery Rivardi's two 6-inch guns were shipped to France for use as field guns in and were not returned to the fort. Two gun platforms in front of Battery Rivardi were for 3-inch antiaircraft guns installed at many coast defense installations in the World War I era. A reserve regiment to supplement the regular forces in wartime was also formed, the th Coast Artillery of the Maine National Guard.
Both of these regiments garrisoned the Harbor Defenses of Portland during early World War II , in which Fort Preble was a naval net depot for net laying ships and a control station for the Casco Bay degaussing range. Only one 3-inch gun remained, which was removed in After World War II it was determined that coast defense forts were obsolete and Fort Preble, along with most forts of its kind, was inactivated in Some of Fort Preble's original early 20th Century brick buildings including officers' quarters, barracks and a fire station remain and are in a good state of preservation.
Spring Point Ledge Light was built near the site in A foot m granite breakwater that extends from the fort and surrounds the lighthouse was later added in Army in the early s. It houses a museum, the Stephen B. It is considered one of the finest examples of early 19th century fortifications.
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