Fort Warren
Fort Warren is a historic fort on the 28-acre Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is named for Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren, who sent Paul Revere on his famous ride, and was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Boston Harbor Islands and Georges Island.
Boston Harbor Islands
Photo: Godsendlemiwinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Boston Harbor Islands are a group of thirty-four islands in Massachusetts that are a unit of the United States National Park System.
Georges Island
Park
Georges Island is one of the islands in the Boston Harbor, situated just over 7 miles from downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 39 acres, and rises to a height of 50 feet above sea level.
Gallops Island
Park
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gallops Island, also known as Gallups Island, is an island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. It is situated between Georges Island and Long Island, and is just over 6 miles from downtown Boston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hull.
Hull
Fort Warren
- Type: Fort
- Description: fort in Boston Harbor
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.32035° or 42° 19′ 13″ northLongitude
-70.9278° or 70° 55′ 40″ westElevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
87JF83CC+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 7616159719OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fort
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“Fort Warren” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沃伦堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Warren”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن وارن”
- French: “fort Warren”
- French: “Fort Warren”
- German: “Fort Warren (Massachusetts)”
- German: “Fort Warren”
- Japanese: “ウォーレン砦”
- Japanese: “フォート・ウォーレン (マサチューセッツ州)”
- Portuguese: “Fort Warren”
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