rusted metal door fort stevens military bunker

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Rusted Metal Door at Fort Stevens Military Bunker

Close up of old military bunker door at Fort Stevens, near Astoria, Oregon. The metal doors and rusted latch at an old military armory building of Fort Stevens, located near Astoria, Oregon. The fort was constructed in 1863-64 during the Civil War as an earthwork battery on the south shore of the mouth of the Columbia River, and was known as the Fort at Point Adams.[3] It was later Fort Stevens in 1865, in honor of the former territorial governor of Washington, Isaac I. Stevens who had been killed in action. Fort Stevens was the primary military installation in what became the Three Fort Harbor Defense System at the mouth of the Columbia River.