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Civil War Fort Duffield:
Union stronghold at the mouth of Salt River:
Before you are the remains of Kentucky's oldest and best-preserved earthen fortification.
The earthen walls were designed to stop cannon balls unlike wooden stockade fortifications of earlier periods.
The fort was built at this site to protect Union army supply base in West Point and to protect the city of Louisville from attack via the Louisville-Nashville Turnpike and Ohio River. |