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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Chapters: Fort Corcoran, Fort Runyon, Halifax Town Hall, Fort Jackson, Joseph F. Glidden House, Studio Building (Boston, Massachusetts), Fort Greble, Fort Lyon, West Point Rice Mill, Saighton Grange, Fort Ellsworth, Fort Worth, Virginia, St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton, St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, St. Mary's Church, Selly Oak, Glockengasse Synagogue, Lamb Hotel, Nantwich, St. John's Church, Copenhagen, Arlington Street Church, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Oxford Music Hall, Mount Pleasant (Indian Falls, New York), Copenhagen University Library, East 78th Street Houses, Cornelius H. Evans House, Swansea, Wappocomo, Cape Ann Light, Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum, La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles, Lloyd Tilghman House, Manitou Island Light Station, Palácio Grão Pará, Adile Sultan Palace, Fort Popham, Marsh Foundation School, Stara Synagogue, Lódz, Glenside Museum, First Presbyterian Church of Wapakoneta, Saint John's Lutheran Church (Adrian, Michigan), Allamakee County Courthouse, Main Building, Heman R. Goodrich House, Tromsø Cathedral, Penrose Methodist Chapel, Old Warren County Courthouse, Fort McAllister Historic Park, Foster's Almshouses, Bristol, Tay An Temple, First Congregational Church of Otto, Green-Meldrim House, Cringletie, Cross Roads Church, Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia), Old Schwamb Mill, Fort Williams, Christian Church (East Delhi, New York), F. L. Wandell Estate and Ward Factory Site, Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Bramcote, First Baptist Church of Interlaken, John Orendorff Farm, The Farm House, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Boston, Otter Lake Community Church, West Almond Churches, Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gresham (Edgewater, Maryland), Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District, Harrison B. Brown House, George Stoppel Farmstead, American Thermos Bottle Company Laurel Hill Plant, Henry Montague House, Perkins-Clark House, St. Philip's Moravian Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania), Monticello Methodist Church, Hollywood (Benoit, Mississippi), Annisquam Bridge, South Church Manse, House at 105 Marion Street, Elizaville Presbyterian Church, Francis J. Child House, China Grove Methodist Church, Centreville Mill, 1861 in architecture. Excerpt: Fort Corcoran was a wood-and-earthwork fortification constructed by the Union Army in northern Virginia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War. Built in 1861, shortly after the occupation of Arlington, Virginia by Union forces, it protected the southern end of the Aqueduct Bridge and overlooked the Potomac River and Theodore Roosevelt Island, then known as Mason's Island. The fort was named after Colonel Michael Corcoran, commander of the 69th New York Volunteer Regiment, one of the units that constructed the fort. Fort Corcoran was home to the Union Army Balloon Corps and the headquarters of the defenses of Washington south of the Potomac River, and served throughout the war before being dismantled in 1866. Today, no trace of the fort remains, though a small historical marker has been erected by the Arlington Historical Society. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Alexandria County (renamed Arlington County in 1920), the northernmost county in Virginia and the closest to Washington, D.C., was a predominantly rural area. Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroce...