Fort Ruger
Fort Ruger | |
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Part of U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps | |
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi | |
Site history | |
Built | 1906 |
In use | 1906–present |
Fort Ruger Historic District
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Location | Diamond Head Rd., Honolulu, Hawaii |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Built | 1911 |
NRHP Reference # | 83000249 |
Added to NRHP | July 14, 1983[1] |
Fort Ruger is a fort on the island of Oʻahu that served as the first military reservation in the Territory of Hawaii. Named after Civil War General Thomas H. Ruger and built in and around Diamond Head Crater, the fort was established by the United States for the purpose of defending the harbor of its newly annexed territory.[2] The fort was established in 1906 as Diamond Head Reservation[3] and renamed Fort Ruger in 1909.[4]
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History
Fort Ruger was the site of Battery Harlow, armed with eight 12-inch mortars. The fort's prominent location on Diamond Head made it a natural fire control station, with several posts built into Leahi Peak.[5]
Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places,[6] portions of the site are still used for training by the Hawaii National Guard.[7]
Few of the original buildings survive. The most striking are three sets of stone structures that mark former gates to the fort. On the Waikiki side, there is a pair of gateposts on either side of the sidewalk and a square stone bunker across the street with a gun slit in the outside wall and with crenels and merlons along the top, as if it were a battlement in a European castle. On the Kahala side is a larger stone gatehouse with rounded edges of the kind popular in the 1930s. Between them, on the Kaimuki side, is a purely decorative structure, a circular stonewalled planter with two jagged stone arches intersecting at 90-degree angles. It now stands at the edge of the Kapiolani Community College parking lot, but was once flanked by two large gun barrels.[8]
Images
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Bunker on ridge of Diamond Head
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Battery Harlow as seen from Diamond Head Road
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Old entrance gatepost, Waikiki side
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Old gate guardhouse, Waikiki side
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Stone artwork, Kaimuki side
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Old gatehouse & current signpost, Kahala side
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Stairs that led to the old Cannon Club
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FtRuger-DiamondHead-Tunnel.JPG
Tunnel into Diamond Head Crater
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View over Kahala toward Koko Head
See also
References
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- ↑ Williford, Glen, Terrance McGovern, Chris Taylor. Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907-50, pp. 16–18. Osprey Publishing, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84176-572-3
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- ↑ Brown, DeSoto. (2003), "Fort Ruger" in David Cheever and Scott Cheever, Pōhaku: The Art & Architecture of Stonework in Hawaiʻi (Honolulu: Editions Limited), pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-0-915013-23-4
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- Coastal artillery
- Forts in Hawaii
- Buildings and structures in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Territory of Hawaii
- Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
- 1906 establishments in Hawaii
- Protected areas established in 1983
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii