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 Castle Pickney Located on Shutes Folly, a small island about one mile off the Charleston shore in the harbor sits a small masonry fortification called Castle Pickney. Constructed by the United States government in 1810 it was used briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp and artillery position during the American Civil War. Some say the fort never fired a single hostile shot during its existence.  Today the fort has gone through some r estoration efforts but with its location access is difficult and it is gradually being reclaimed by nature. 

 Fort Deleware State Park Fort Delaware State Park is a 288-acre Delaware state park on Pea Patch Island in New Castle County, Delaware, in the United States. A fortress was built on Pea Patch Island by the United States Army in 1815, near the conclusion of the War of 1812, to protect the harbors of Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fort was burned and rebuilt in the years prior to the American Civil War, and soon after the start of the war, the fort was converted to a Prisoner of War camp. Fort Delaware continued to protect the mouth of the Delaware River through World War I and II. Pea Patch Island and Fort Delaware was declared surplus land by the United States Department of Defense in 1945.