2021 quick trips – part 12: Blakely, a town in memory only
The town of Blakeley originally was a riverside trading center founded in 1814. At its height, it was one of Alabama’s largest cities; today all that remains is glimpses and...
2021 quick trips – part 13: Fort Blakeley, when is a fort not a fort?
When you think of a fort from the late 1800s, what does it look like to you? I see a 4-sided wooden structure made of vertical logs with a large...
2021 quick trips – part 14: going further south in Alabama to get warm
One of our goals for this “quick trip” was to find warmer weather than what we had in northern Georgia, and we were successful—to a point. After settling into our...
2021 quick trips – part 15: Fairhope and a cozy mystery
Fairhope is a city with a small-town feel on the eastern side of Mobile Bay. It’s a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley micropolitan area in Baldwin County. We were here...
2021 quick trips – part 16: overview of Fort Morgan from 1701 to the Battle of Mobile Bay and the end of the Civil War
Before this quick trip to southern Alabama, we had heard about Fort Morgan that sat on the tip of the entrance to Mobile Bay, but our initial introduction a couple...