249th area, Fort Stevens, looking toward the mouth of the Columbia River.; Scope and content: Beginning with the Civil War, the Army recognized a need to provide for coastal defenses in the Pacific NW along the Columbia River and in the Puget Sound. A number of forts, many no longer in service, were built for this purpose.

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