Unlike many of the Third System forts, Fort Gaines has few casemates. Those present served as bombproof protection, instead of serving as gun emplacements, as found at Fort Pickens. The structure in the foreground is a cistern, which stored rainwater from the gutters of various structures for drinking water.
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