Planning the Future of Castle Pinckney A Long-term Heritage Preservation Effort Castle Pinckney Historical Preservation Society Introduction: The primary purposes of this heritage preservation effort are to protect the site from inappropriate development and to preserve it as a community … Continue reading
National Register of Historical Places Inventory ~ Nomination Form 1970 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Click here to view the Full PDF … Continue reading
Castle Pinckney: An Archeological Assessment with Recommendations April 1, 1978 by Kenneth E. Lewis ~ William T. Langhorne Jr. Click here to view the PDF of this report … Continue reading
Out of Oblivion: Castle Pinckney By James P. Petit in collaboration with James A. Turner, Jr. Click here to view the PDF of this report. … Continue reading
Castle Pinckney Restoration Prepared for the Fort Sumter Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans by Wilber Smith and Associates February 1978 Click here to view the PDF of this report … Continue reading
The Origins and Development of America’s Forgotten Castle: Castle Pinckney by Christopher T. Ziegler Click here to view the pdf version. … Continue reading
Courtney Friedman was fishing Saturday in the waters around Castle Pinckney in Charleston harbor when an American bald eagle landed atop the flagpole at the fort. The 15-star flag was the nation’s banner when the fort was completed … Continue reading
National Parks Traveler Magazine October 2009 By Bob Janiskee The Park Service acquired South Carolina’s Castle Pinckney National Monument in 1933, but was glad to see it abolished and transferred in the 1950s. Lacking a glorious past, and too expensive … Continue reading
Castle Pinckney is one of a few surviving “castle” style forts. At the time of Castle Pinckney’s construction in 1811 these all masonry, circular, casemated fortifications were a revolutionary experiment in military architecture, inspired by the theories of the foremost … Continue reading