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TITLE:
Murallas del Viejo San Juan, San Juan, San Juan County, PR

CALL NUMBER:
HABS PR,7-SAJU,64-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 1  (34 x 44 in.)

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Schara, Mark, delineator
Vazquez, J. Raul, delineator
Hernandez, Naomi, delineator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS PR-135

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N502).

Significance: From the beginning of Spanish settlement on Puerto Rico (by Ponce de Leon in 1508), the geographic and strategic importance of the excellent port at San Juan was recognized. By 1540 the first fortifications to guard the harbor had been constructed, at the present sites of La Fortaleza and the fort of El Morro. The English attacks of 1595 and 1598, and the Dutch attack of 1625 proved the usefulness of these forts. In each of these attacks, however, the population retreated to the forts for protection, leaving the actual settlement of San Juan vulnerable to pillage and arson by the invaders...

SUBJECTS:
PUERTO RICO--San Juan County--San Juan

OTHER TITLE:
City Walls of Old San Juan
San Juan National Historic Site

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pr1479

CONTROL #:
PR1479

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