# Fort Sumter

Charleston, United States

Fort Sumter is a five-sided masonry sea fort on an artificial island in Charleston Harbor, begun in 1829. Here, on the twelfth of April, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire and the American Civil War began. It is now a national monument.

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Coordinates: 32.75222222, -79.87472222

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