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Russian Fort Elizabeth (Pāʻulaʻula), Kauaʻi
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Russian Fort Elizabeth (Pāʻulaʻula), Kauaʻi
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Russian Fort Elizabeth (Pāʻulaʻula), Kauaʻi

Елизаветинская крепость на острове Кауаи (Паулаула)
USAВаимеа (остров Кауаи)1817Military sites
A stone fort at the mouth of the Waimea River, begun in 1817 on the initiative of Russian-American Company employee Georg Anton Schäffer under an agreement with Kauaʻi ruler Kaumualiʻi. In autumn 1817 Hawaiian troops occupied the fort and used it until the 1850s. The walls survive; since 1962 it has been a U.S. National Historic Landmark and a Hawaiʻi state historical park.
Каменное укрепление в устье реки Ваимеа, заложенное в 1817 году по инициативе служащего Российско-американской компании Георга Антона Шеффера по соглашению с правителем Кауаи Каумуалии. Осенью 1817 года крепость заняли гавайские войска, использовавшие её до 1850-х годов. Сохранились стены; с 1962 года — Национальный исторический памятник США и исторический парк штата Гавайи.

Property abroad

EraRussian Empire
FunctionFort, settlement
Present ownerState of Hawaiʻi
Acquisitionbuilt, 1817
StatusSold, transferred or lost
As of2019-08
Occupied by Hawaiian troops in October 1817; according to the National Park Service it is now a state historical park.

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