Fort Santa Agueda, on

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in Hagåtña (formerly Agana),

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, dates from about 1800, during the 1784-1802 administration of Spanish governor Manuel Moro. It was an uncovered fort with a manposteria (coral stone and lime mortar) parapet, rising about above a sloping hillside. It is listed on the U.S.

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, as the only remaining fortification of the Spanish Era in Hagåtña. The fort was mentioned in 1802 by an officer of an American whaling ship, who recorded that the fort had seven guns and ten men, and that it fired a salute when the governor entered a new church in Agana. Russian

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, in 1817, noted that it had only a few guns. It was in ruins by 1887. It was used by Americans as a signal station until 1933, and was converted to a gun emplacement by the Japanese occupiers during

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. It became a park in 1960 and was listed on the

in 1974. and

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Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam Buildings and structures completed in 1800 Santa Agueda Buildings and structures in Hagåtña, Guam {{Guam-struct-stub

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