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    Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and...
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    Fort Pickering was built in Memphis Tennessee, by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. It was taken over by the Union Army to provide control...
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  • Pickering Passage, Washington, a strait Fort Pickering, Massachusetts, a 17th-century fort on the National Register of Historic Places Fort Pickering...
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    Fort Pickering Light, also known as Winter Island Light, is a lighthouse built in 1871 and discontinued by the Coast Guard in 1969. It was relit as a private...
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    Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary...
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    spiritual father. Salem's harbor was defended by Fort Miller in Marblehead from 1632 to 1865, and by Fort Pickering on Winter Island from 1643 to 1865. During...
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    there—built cabins and shacks. They settled beyond the city limits near Fort Pickering, near what was called South Memphis. Other blacks moved there in hopes...
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    historic Fort Pickering, the Fort Pickering Lighthouse, Salem Harbor, a boat launching ramp, and the former Coast Guard seaplane hangar and barracks. Fort Pickering...
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    or opiates based upon an account attributed to Gilbert C. Russell at Fort Pickering on Lewis's final journey, Others have argued that Bates never alleged...
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  • current Fort Independence in Boston Harbor Fort William (Salem, Massachusetts), 1643 fort on the site of Fort Pickering Fort Amsterdam (once named Fort William)...
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  • generations, including Colonel Timothy Pickering, it evolved with Gothic Revival flourishes. Now a Pickering Foundation museum, it faces Broad Street...
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    commanded occupying troops at Memphis, Tennessee, who were stationed at Fort Pickering. He had turned over control of law enforcement to the civilian government...
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  • guard and fatigue duty at Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee) located just south of Memphis, Tennessee. As Fort Pickering never saw battle, the 89th...
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  • Point Fort Fort Heath Fort Independence, open to the public Long Point Battery Fort Miller Fort Phoenix Fort Pickering Fort Revere Fort Rodman Fort Ruckman...
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    places the number at just 263. The dead soldiers were interred at the Fort Pickering cemetery, located on the south shore of Memphis. A year later, when...
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  • Fort Phoenix Fort Pickering Fort Revere Fort Ridiculous Fort Rodman Fort Ruckman Fort at Salisbury Point Stage Fort Fort Standish (Boston) Fort Standish (Plymouth)...
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  • prewar customs of Black deference. After the last Black soldiers at Fort Pickering were discharged on April 30, 1866, confrontation arose. Newly in the...
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    around the world. The harbor was defended by Fort Miller in Marblehead from 1632 to 1865, and by Fort Pickering on Winter Island from 1643 to 1865. Salem...
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    Overview". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 13, 2017. "Historic Fort Pickering, Memphis". Historic-memphis.com. Archived from the original on November...
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    East Chop Eastern Point Edgartown Harbor Egg Rock Fairhaven Bridge Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Gay Head The Graves Great Point Highland Hospital Point...
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    Uptown Greenlaw Harbor Town The Edge Victorian Village South Bluffs Fort Pickering Downtown Memphis is located on the banks of the Mississippi River. The...
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  • Alabama as a young man. In 1809, Russell was serving as commandant of Fort Pickering when Meriwether Lewis spent two weeks there on his trip to Washington...
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    During the raid, another—General Cadwallader C. Washburn—escaped to Fort Pickering dressed in his night-shirt after John Alexander Bryan of Co I, 15th...
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    Fort Pickering...
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    and North Carolina." The magazine of the unit's Battery A exploded at Fort Pickering on September 24, 1864, killing two and injuring four. A number of the...
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  • 1702 fort on the site of later Fort Pickering Fort Ann, New York, a town in Washington County, New York Battle of Fort Anne, an American Revolutionary...
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    and August 1864 to fill the soon to be vacant positions at the coastal forts. Again, the state militia regiments were used to fill most of the quota...
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  • (Victoria, Texas), NRHP-listed Pickering Farm, Issaquah, Washington Adams-Pickering Block, Bangor, Maine, NRHP-listed Fort Pickering, Salem, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed...
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    East Chop Eastern Point Edgartown Harbor Egg Rock Fairhaven Bridge Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Gay Head The Graves Great Point Highland Hospital Point...
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  • 45 ft (14 m) Fort Pickering Light Salem (Winter Island) 42°31′35″N 70°51′59″W / 42.5264°N 70.8664°W / 42.5264; -70.8664 (Fort Pickering Light) 1871...
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