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    Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and...
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  • Mount Pickering, California Pickering Creek, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Schuylkill River Pickering Passage, Washington, a strait Fort Pickering, Massachusetts...
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    Fort Pickering was built in Memphis Tennessee, by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. It was taken over by the Union Army to provide control...
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    Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary...
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    Fort Pickering Light, also known as Winter Island Light, is a lighthouse built in 1871 and discontinued by the Coast Guard in 1969. It was relit as a private...
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  • current Fort Independence in Boston Harbor Fort William (Salem, Massachusetts), 1643 fort on the site of Fort Pickering Fort Amsterdam (once named Fort William)...
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    historic Fort Pickering, the Fort Pickering Lighthouse, Salem Harbor, a boat launching ramp, and the former Coast Guard seaplane hangar and barracks. Fort Pickering...
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    spiritual father. Salem's harbor was defended by Fort Miller in Marblehead from 1632 to 1865, and by Fort Pickering on Winter Island from 1643 to 1865. During...
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    commanded occupying troops at Memphis, Tennessee, who were stationed at Fort Pickering. He had turned over control of law enforcement to the civilian government...
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    thereā€”built cabins and shacks. They settled beyond the city limits near Fort Pickering, near what was called South Memphis. Other blacks moved there in hopes...
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