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Chennai : Fort St. George

The building of the nucleus of this Fort in 1640 was the first step towards the founding of chennai and an Empire. The fort itself kept growing over the years and is one of the finest examples in India of British military construction. Within its solid walls and sturdy gates are much that is historic. Clive's Corner in the house where Robert Clive lived, commemorates the Empire-builders who first learnt his trade here. St. Mary's Church consecrated in 1680 and the oldest Protestant Church in the East, contains several antiquities, not the least being the oldest British tombstones in India and memorial of weddings in which Clive and Elihu Yale, benefactor of America's yale University. Arthur Wellesley who became Wellington and Warren Hastings were present for wedding held here. The Legislature and Secretariat of the Government were built around a core that was Fort House, the home of the first governor of Chennai and, the Fort Museum, once a building that housed Chennai's first lighthouse, first commercial bank and first club, is now a well-kept repository of tangible memories of early Chennai. Fort Museum Timing: 9am to 5 pm. Friday holiday.





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