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Fort Taber / Fort Rodman
A Civil War stone fort on Buzzards Bay, with a museum, a park, and a reputation.
1000C South Rodney French Boulevard
New Bedford, MA
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Orientation
Where it is
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The record
At the tip of Clark's Point in New Bedford stands a Civil War–era granite fort, designed by Robert E. Lee during his prewar service as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer. Construction began in 1857 but was unfinished at the war's outbreak, so in 1861 the city built a temporary earthwork nearby — Fort Taber, named for New Bedford's mayor — to guard the harbor and its whaling fleet against feared Confederate raids; it served until the stone fort was garrisoned in 1863. In 1898 the whole reservation was renamed Fort Rodman for Lt. Col. William Logan Rodman, the highest-ranking New Bedford native killed in the war. The site is now part of a 47-acre coastal park with a military museum, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors and staff at the fort and museum report cold spots and a sense of being watched among the stone corridors and batteries.
Field reports
Reported phenomena
Logged by the host and by previous investigators. Reported, not verified.
- Reported · Widely reported ghost stories tied to its military history (local lore, not established fact)
Chronology
History
1862
Henry Robert took charge of construction
Work on the stone fort passed in 1862 to Henry Robert of the Army Corps of Engineers, the officer who would later write Robert's Rules of Order.
Submitted by visitors
Evidence
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