Shepherd’s Bombproof

Improved artillery made brick forts obsolete. Rooms covered with sand provided better protection for defenders.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Bombproof

Two bombproofs, each measuring 200 feet long by 12.5 feet wide, were located in the center of Fort Ward. During normal operations the bombproofs were used as meeting rooms, storage facilities, and sometimes as a prison. In the event of ...

Casemates or Bombproofs

1798

Report from the Fort

21 January 1802 • Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi

The bombproofs are six in number and well arched.

No.1 - used as a guard house has two large bake ovens – its dimensions are 50 ...

Bombproofs

The arched chambers on either side of the sally port are identical bomb shelters for the fort's soldiers. They were built immediately after the bombardment of 1814, when it became obvious that such places were needed. Fortunately, Fort McHenry was ...