Keywords: 249th area, Fort Stevens, looking toward the mouth of the Columbia River. - NARA - 299658.tif Scope and content Beginning with the Civil War the U S Army recognized a need to provide for coastal defenses in the Pacific NW along the Columbia River and in the Puget Sound A number of forts many no longer in service were built for this purpose General notes 299658 Local identifier War Department Fourth Army and Western Defense Command ~ Coast Defenses of the Columbia 03/17/1941 - 1946 NARA's Pacific Alaska Region Seattle NRIAS 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle WA 98115-7999 Record group Record Group 392 Records of U S Army Coast Artillery Districts and Defenses 1901 - 1950 Record group ARC 690 General History of the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia compiled ca 1945 - ca 1945 documenting the period ca 1864 - ca 1945 Series ARC 299650 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRIS-392-CODEF99B-8 yes Other versions <gallery> File 249th_area _Fort_Stevens _looking_toward_the_mouth_of_the_Columbia_River _-_NARA_-_299658 tif tif File 249th_area _Fort_Stevens _looking_toward_the_mouth_of_the_Columbia_River _-_NARA_-_299658 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Fort Stevens Oregon NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |