Beverly Fort was a fort that existed from 1775 to 1776 during the

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on Hospital Point in

Beverly, Massachusetts Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Sho ...

. It was reoccupied in 1814 during the

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. In 1801, a smallpox hospital was built and used in 1814 as a barracks. The J-shaped earthwork of the fort still exists today.

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