Editing Fort McClary (section)

===Post Civil War to present===
[[Image:Fort McClary State Historic Site - Kittery Point, Maine (5913741983).jpg|thumb|right|Carronade in the Fort McClary blockhouse]]
In the 1870s, the lower battery was rebuilt with three temporary gun positions for 10-inch [[Parrott rifles]], but funding was again cut off with few other improvements.<ref name=NAForts1/> In the 1890s, nine 15-inch [[Rodman gun|Rodman smoothbore guns]] and seven carriages were stored at the fort, to be mounted in case of war. Three of the Rodmans were mounted as an emergency measure in the Spanish–American War of 1898.<ref name=NAForts1/><ref name=FWiki1/> The fort was superseded by the construction of [[Fort Foster (Kittery, Maine)]] and new batteries at [[Fort Constitution]] under the [[Board of Fortifications|Endicott Program]] by 1901. By the 1910s, most of the fort had fallen into disrepair and it was officially decommissioned in 1918. The State of Maine acquired most of the property from the federal government in 1924, after which it was managed as a park. Several of the dilapidated structures were demolished in the following decades. Parts of the fort were used by civilian defense forces during [[World War II]]. In 1969, it was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The blockhouse and other structures were renovated in 1987, and the blockhouse serves as a museum.