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This structure is a hot shot furnace used to heat cannon balls so they could be fired at wooden vessels and set them on fire. It was part of the water battery built by the U.S. from 1842 to 1844, when this side of the moat was filled in and guns were mounted on the stone arcs behind the sea wall.
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St. Augustine, Florida · United States
