Brownsea Castle Brownsea Castle Brownsea Castle, also known historically as Branksea Castle, was originally a Device Fort constructed by Henry VIII between 1545 and 1547 to protect Poole Harbour in Dorset, England, from the threat of French attack. Located on Brownsea Island, it comprised a stone blockhouse with a hexagonal gun platform. It was garrisoned by the local town with six soldiers and armed with eight artillery pieces. The castle remained in use after the original invasion scare had passed and was occupied by Parliament during the English Civil War of the 1640s. By the end of the century, however, it had
Coast Guard Station Cobb Island County, Virginia, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in May 1998. TNC subsequently restored the former Station Cobb Island as a nature education center/lodge/conference center through adaptive reuse. The property is currently listed for sale. Coast Guard Station Cobb Island was built by the United States Coast Guard on the southern end of Cobb Island in 1936 to replace an earlier c.1877 Coast Guard Station. The architecture stye of the new Station was Colonial Revival, as designed by the Coast Guard’s Civil Engineer’s office. Station Cobb Island was decommissioned by the Coast Guard in 1964 and abandoned. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) acquired