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Pruning the Parks: Castle Pinckney National Monument (1933-1956)

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on October 13, 2009 - 2:35am
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 to restore, the old island fort now sits rotting in Charleston harbor.