Fortress
Fort Morgan
🇺🇸 United States
Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. Named for American Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan, it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen and stockade-type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812. Construction was completed in 1834, and it received its first garrison in March of the same year.
Fort Morgan is at the tip of Mobile Point at the western terminus of State Route 180 (Alabama). It and Dauphin Island, on which Fort Gaines is situated, enclose Mobile Bay. The Alabama Historical Commission maintains the site.
Text adapted from “Fort Morgan (Alabama)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Morgan ranks #1,608 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #38 of the 77 mapped in United States. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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