Mobile Bay Fort, Alabama – Antique Map Print
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Step back in time with Mobile Bay Fort, Alabama, an antique map rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mobile Bay Fort, Alabama
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Fort Morgan, a pentagonal brick work guarding the eastern entrance to Mobile Bay, was begun in 1819 and largely finished in the 1830s, and it protected Mobile, the chief Gulf outlet for cotton shipped down the Mobile River. Its moment of fame came in August 1864, when Union Admiral David Farragut's fleet steamed past its guns into the bay. Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island had already surrendered, and Fort Morgan fell to a siege later that month. People in Mobile and along the coast knew these forts as the place where the war reached their harbor. Later decades brought newer coastal batteries and a gradual shift toward fishing and resort life on the peninsula.
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Alabama |
| Original scan | 10,087 × 6,010 px · prints to 34 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AL-MobileBay Fort |
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