Our first weekend in North Carolina we went to Atlantic Beach. This is Fort Macon it was really cool. It was built in 1756 to protect the coast of New England. The walls are 26 feet high and 4.5 feet thick. It was used during the war of 1812. After that from 1867 to 1876 it was used as a prison. In 1923 the state made it into a state park.