Fort Moore (1846-1853)
Fort Moore was the second of two historic U.S. Military Forts in Los Angeles, California, during the Mexican–American War. It lay straight above the junction of the Hollywood Freeway and Broadway, on an historic hill that once sheltered the old Plaza.
| Fort Moore | |
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| 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 | |
| Coordinates | 34°03′30″N 118°14′31″W |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1846–1847 |
| In use | 1846–1853 |
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. 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. In old photographs, it forms a backdrop just behind the Plaza Church and square. By 1949, what was left of the hill under the fort was cut down when the Hollywood Freeway was put through.
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.