Fort at Salisbury Point
The Fort at Salisbury Point was a fort that existed between 1863 and 1865 in Salisbury, Massachusetts. It was a nine-gun earthwork probably located at the mouth of the Merrimack River at what is now the Salisbury Beach State Reservation, where eventual erosion washed it away. A 1903 reference states it was on the site of the Revolutionary War Fort Nichols, but that site is in doubt, and may have been at the location called Salisbury Point in Amesbury. The Fort at Salisbury Point was designed and built under the supervision of Major Charles E. Blunt of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. From November 1864 to June 1865 it was garrisoned by the 20th Unattached Company of Massachusetts militia.
