2021 quick trips – part 18: a walk inside Fort Morgan
Time to walk around Fort Morgan as it looked when it was left to the state of Alabama in 1948 as an historical site. Once the Civil War was over,...
2021 quick trips – part 19: early history of this military site, including the Battle of Mobile Bay
European influence on Mobile Point started with the French in the early 1700s. France eventually ceded their control to the British under the Treaty of Paris (1763) that ended the...
2021 quick trips – part 20: the siege of Fort Morgan following the Battle of Mobile Bay
We thought we were done exploring until we started driving out and saw some more displays that took us back in time to the siege of Fort Morgan that started...
2021 quick trips – part 21: Fort Morgan’s BIG gun batteries and back of the fort
When we were walking around the inside of Fort Morgan, we spent time at the concrete gun emplacement across from the fort’s entrance known as Battery Duportail that faced toward...
2021 quick trips – part 22: Fort Morgan at the turn of the century until it was closed
At the time of the BIG guns being built around the turn of the 19th century, Fort Morgan was so much more than the fortress of the Civil War era...