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GREAT MOAT WITH CIVIL DEFENSE BUILDING FROM SOUTH TIP OF LA TRINIDAD COUNTERGUARD, LOWER LEVEL - La Trinidad Counterguard, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR
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GREAT MOAT WITH CIVIL DEFENSE BUILDING FROM SOUTH TIP OF LA TRINIDAD COUNTERGUARD, LOWER LEVEL - La Trinidad Counterguard, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR
Description
Behrens, Tom, transmitter
Depicted place Puerto Rico; San Juan Municipio; San Juan
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS PR,7-SAJU,59-4
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: It was built between 1765-83 by military engineer Thomas O'Daly, Chief of the Spanish Corps of Engineers in San Juan, represents in capsule form the solution to tactical problems presented in the site of the Castillo de San Cristobal. The conditions existing at the fort were the bastion's walls of somewhat antiquated heights facing a flat expanse from which enemy cannons would hit its exposed flanks. This was the most appropriate point where to attack the town...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N105
  • Survey number: HABS PR-121
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000930.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pr0110.photos.045380p
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