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  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 140
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 140

    Caption: "Fort Columbia, Wash.," c. 1910. Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904, sits on Chinook Point overlooking the Columbia River. It is part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the river from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Oregon's Fort Stevens and Washington's Fort Canby). Fort Columbia was decommissioned after World War II, and is now the site of a Washington State Park.

    Date: 1910