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Published on: 10/11/2008
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The historic Santo Domingo Redoubt will be completed this month after a delay caused by bad concrete logs, said St. Augustine Grants Coordinator Jason Sheffield.
The redoubt, near the corner of Cordova and Orange streets, was a strong point on a wall that shielded the northern side of St. Augustine in the 1700s and 1800s.The strong point jutted from the Cubo Line, a palm log wall that stretched from the Castillo de San Marcos to the San Sebastian River.
The redoubt reconstruction began in 2001 with a $300,000 grant from the Florida Department of State.
The city expected the project to be done by March 2002, Sheffield said.
But 153 of the 395 logs were not made correctly, and the city rejected them, he said.Steel rebar was visible at the ends of the logs.Authorities worried that the steel would rust and ruin the redoubt.
Pedroni's Cast Stone, the Jacksonville company that made the logs, fixed the problem, Sheffield said.
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According to Sheffield, the only cost to the city was the year-and-a-half delay.
"Ultimately, when it's all said and done, it will have been worth the time and the wait we had to go through," Sheffield said.
According to local historian Cecile-Marie Sastre, the original Cubo Line was built by the Spaniards in 1704 after an attack two years earlier.
The English had sacked St. Augustine in 1702.Gen.
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The historic Santo Domingo Redoubt will be completed this month after a delay caused by bad concrete logs, said St. Augustine Grants Coordinator Jason Sheffield.
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