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...
2021 quick trips – part 17: overview of Fort Morgan from 1868 to today, constant changes
The heyday of Fort Morgan was during the Civil War, but it became important along the Gulf Coast again during the Spanish-American War and the 2 world wars. What we...
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...