We explored the Fort Morgan State Historic Site in Alabama, at the end of a peninsula between Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

Here’s an interactive map:

Museum:

This fort had quite an interesting history:

Battery Schenck:

Battery Thomas:

The famous phrase “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” was (perhaps) uttered near here, something we previously encountered in Idaho at the Farragut Museum at the Brig:

The fort:

Tunnel into the fort:

Another battery:

A fascinating historic site.