Back

Fort Moore (1846-1853)

This article is about the Mexican-American War era fort in Los Angeles. For the current U.S. Army fort in Georgia, see Fort Moore.
Fort Moore
Los Angeles County, California
The Banning Mansion near summit of Fort Moore Hill in 1887.
Old Los Angeles: 'C' marks Fort Moore. ('P' marks the Plaza.)
Fort Moore is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Fort Moore
Fort Moore
Coordinates34°03′32″N 118°14′35″W / 34.058889°N 118.243056°W / 34.058889; -118.243056
Site history
Built1846–1847
In use1846–1853

Fort Moore was the second of two historic U.S. Military Forts in Los Angeles, California, during the Mexican–American War.[1] It lay straight above the junction of the Hollywood Freeway and Broadway,[2] on an historic hill that once sheltered the old Plaza.

The landmark hill took its name, Fort Hill, from the first fort, and the hill afforded sweeping views of the old adobe town and the vineyards in the swale of the Los Angeles River.[3] Fort Hill was a spur of the ridge that runs from the Quarry Hills (Elysian Park) southward to Beaudry’s Bunker Hill; it originally stretched east between 1st Street and Ord Street.[4] In old photographs, it forms a backdrop just behind the Plaza Church and square.[5] By 1949, what was left of the hill under the fort was cut down when the Hollywood Freeway was put through.[6]

The fort is now memorialized by the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial, a stone mural on Hill Street, along the south side of Grand Arts High School.

  1. ^ The first fort was called simply "Post at Los Angeles" (California Military Museum, "Fort Moore").
  2. ^ 101 and Broadway lay right underneath the fort's south bastion. Its two bastions, north and south, projected east of Broadway, and the front face was parallel with Broadway to the north of the freeway. The back of the fort was above Hill St. about where the Pioneer Memorial is now.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference militarymuseum.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Sunset Boulevard/César Chavez Avenue was not cut through until around 1900, by which time much of Fort Hill had been dug away.
  5. ^ Temple Street was the first to climb the hill, linking the old town around the plaza to the open country to the west.
  6. ^ However, not all the hill was bulldozed, but some of it has been left west of Hill Street and north of the freeway, although at a fraction of its former height.

Rich TVX News Network Site

Rich TVX News Network Info

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search