Fort Fincastle, overlooking the town from Bennet's Hill was built by Lord Dunmore, about 1793 who named it after his second title, Viscount Fincastle. In a letter to the Secretary of State of February 17, 1794, he describes it as "a battery upon a hill in this island to the Eastwards of the Government House mounting two 24 pounders, two 32 pounder Carronades, two 12 pounders, and one Howitzer, which not only covers the Battery in Hog Island (Paradise Island) but all the Town and Road to the Eastward where the enemy might probably have effected a landing."
A light used to be exhibited from this fort until the Hog Island (Paradise Island) Lighthouse was completed in 1816. The fort is now used as a signal station.
Viewed from the front, Fort Fincastle looks like an old paddle-wheel steamer approaching bow-on.
The Queen's Staircase, with 66 treads cut in the solid rock and bricked, said to be the work of slaves, leads to the back of Fort Fincastle from Elizabeth Avenue.
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