Fort Brooke
Fort Brooke was a historical military post established at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida, in 1824.
Fort Brooke was a historical military post established at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida, in 1824. Its original purpose was to serve as a check on and trading post for the native Seminoles, who had been confined to an interior reservation by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823), and it served as a military headquarters and port during the Second Seminole War (1835–1842). The village of Tampa developed just north of the fort during this period, and the area was the site of a minor raid and skirmish during the American Civil War. The obsolete outpost was sparsely garrisoned after the war, and it was decommissioned in 1883, just before Tampa began a period of rapid growth, opening the land for development.
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300 m · indoor stadium in Tampa, Florida, USA · Wikipedia - 02University of Tampa
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- Tampa (TPA), 9 km · St. Petersburg Clearwater (PIE), 23 km · Sarasota Bradenton (SRQ), 62 km
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- Union Station, 1.3 km · Peter O. Knight Airport, 3 km · Port of Tampa, 2 km
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