Fort Kamehameha
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| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii |
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| Coordinates | 21°19′24″N 157°57′34″W / 21.32333°N 157.95944°WCoordinates: 21°19′24″N 157°57′34″W / 21.32333°N 157.95944°W |
| Built | 1913–1915 |
| MPS | Artillery District of Honolulu Thematic Resource |
| NRHP Reference # |
84000954 84000975 84000925 84000928 84000948 |
| Added to NRHP | June 5, 1984 |
Fort Kamehameha was a United States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The eastern areas of the fort were in the district called Moanalua. It was royal land won by conquest by Kamehameha I in the 1790s and eventually passed to Bernice Pauahi Bishop (named "Bishop's Point") and then inherited by Samuel Mills Damon in 1884. The western side known as Halawa, was the former beach-front estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii. The sandy dunes had been used as a burial site. After annexation of the Territory of Hawaii it was used for the U.S. Army in 1901, and acquired by the U.S. federal government in 1907 by condemnation from Emma's estate. It was sometimes called "Queen Emma Military Reservation" or "Queen Emma Point".
Secretary of War William Howard Taft under President Theodore Roosevelt headed a group to review coastal defenses, in light of "possessions" such as Hawaii and the Philippines, based on the findings of the Board of Fortifications. Originally named Fort Upton for General Emory Upton (1839–1881), on January 28, 1909 after local citizens objected, Archibald Cleghorn suggested the name be changed to honor Kamehameha I, the first king of the unified Hawaiian islands.
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