Fort Morgan, Alabama
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2017
- We took a Sunday drive down to Fort Morgan to check it out and explore. Very cool place to see at the Southern most point in Alabama. After the fort we took a ferry ride over to Dauphin Island but that will be in the next video to follow.
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Great video Adam. I visited Fort Morgan on our spring break trip to Gulf Shores this spring. Super cool place. Those stairs are crazy steep. My kids loved the manicured grass in the center area.
That grass is amazingly green and pretty there!
Abome a very good and lovely tour ! thanks for walking with you and abay !! thanks men.love it
Another awesome video. worth 2 thumbs up.
Thanks Adam!
Steve,
Hi Adam great to see you out enjoying your part of this great country, It is also great to see you enjoying time spent with Miss Abbey, she seems like a great person with a great personality and fun loving way good on you brother
awesome Adam. thanks for taking us with you
Thanks for the video Adam and Abbey! Very nice 👍👍👍
Thanks for the tour, and I dig Abby's shoes. Keep on Truckin'...
I have felt the feelings you are talking about when I have toured the USS Constitution in Boston Harbor. Trailing my hand on the woodwork you can feel the lives that crewed her.
If you get a really good guide, they can even point out different sections of restoration. The thing is a literal ship of Theseus at this point, not much of the original timbers left in her, and a lot of different types of work from different periods.
Love your tour videos Adam - just like I'd look at it if I was there. Way better than most of the crap on TV! Thanks for sharing.
+Bob Meyer Your welcome Bob! Thank you
Very cool! Thanks for the tour!
Ahh, I loved this one man .. Thanks Adam & Abby ! Great tour .. Thumbs up .. ENJOYED ..
Visited Morgan last week. A very impressive place, the brickwork is endless and the condition is great considering the age and environment.
Coming coming from a construction background it gives me an inkling scope of the nearly unimaginable amount of manual labor and supply enterprise that was required. I could only stay an hour & half, but it wasn't long enough to satisfy my awe. Bless the craftsman of the world, past, present, and future.
love these as much as your other vids good work man
A friend of mine is a member of the CDSG Costal Defense Study Group. He just loves looking at all the forts built to protect our great country all along our coasts.
Great video tour Adam - looked a great day out.
Very cool stuff, Adam. Thanks for taking us along in video. Always neat to see history like this.
Really great video. Your trips make it seem that it would be a fun vacation to visit your area.
Abbey & Adam, thank you for the ride along and the beautiful scenes .
Adam, Another nice tour video, I often wish I was there to see those sights, looking forward to more of them. Regards.
Thanks for the trip. I enjoyed it. This is the only way I'll see any of these places. Keep it up. Thanks.
a nice video Adam, it's good to see you out with ya lady!
Thank you Adam for sharing with us, so much history just outside our front door.
Really cool place! Thanks for the tour!
Great video! Thanks Adam!
Love seeing and Abbey together, looks like it's getting serious Maybe there will some news coming soon. Love the interactions with her, as your buddy always says GTTER DONE ADAM !!!
We rented a house on Ft. Morgan 4 weeks ago and I visited the old fort. I wish I had discovered your video first. Excellent job.
Nice, did you guys ride the ferry over to Dauphin Island?
This is great. Thanks Abby and Adam for sharing your life experiences.
Great video Adam. Almost see the soldiers running to their positions.
I love this music, the video and the ssh t-shirt. You guys look good together
Yeah, those old forts are really neat. This past summer I went on vacation with my wife's family to Charleston SC, and I took a ferry out to Fort Sumter. You can see where the Confederates and then the Union artillery blasted chunks out of the brickwork, then climb up onto the newer concrete positions from the 1890s. Since our group was the first out in the morning, they also ran up a gigantic flag, which was pretty neat to see. Even better, they've still got the original flag that Major Anderson struck in 1861 and ran back up when the war ended.
This history is really sobering. My wife's family lives near Jackson TN and there are some Civil War battlefields around there, including Shiloh, the first really big battle of the war. Walking along there, knowing that at age 30, I would've been the 'old man' among the troops, standing in Hornet's Nest (so-called because of the volume of fire the Union put out) and imagining standing there with my fellow Illinois volunteers repelling thirteen Rebel attacks throughout the day, and finally being forced to retreat by fifty enemy cannons massed against you...you feel it.
Cool video Adam & Abbey. It looked like fun.
Thanks Mike!
Very cool video. My family and I have recently returned from a trip to Fort Morgan. My son and I explored the fort and I was amazed at the history of Fort Mogan. We also took the ferry ride to Dauphin Island and explored Fort Gaines. Amazing that places of war and violence have become such things of peace and beauty. Volumes of history in those forts.
Wow, I've never been there either, and that is really impressive compared to the the west end of Dauphin Island fort and even Fort Pickens. I use to scuba dive Fort Pickens back in the day. Enjoyed the video Adam!
Thanks for tuning in Russ! We really enjoyed seeing that area and plan to go back soon to see more.
Good timing Adam, as you know, we are going over to Mobile Friday.
I enjoyed the visit and wish we could have "jawed" a while longer.
I hope Abby enjoyed her dinner,
Rollie
Superb Video and commentary. So nice to see the scenic surrounding with tons of history. Nyce Video Sir, Thank You so much.
Nice job supporting the Braves👍, both ofs ya!
I confess I was hoping for a shop video, but historical videos like this are very interesting. I love old structures also, im also a huge railroad buff and I love all the old stuff you see in old RR yards and nearby places. Im also a huge WWII era buff and this past memorial day me and a friend of mine went to our local military cemetery to visit her deceased husband and see all the flags on every single headstone, and its a refreshing change to be in a place were no one complains about American flags flying. I tell ya its a humbling feeling when you stand among all those heroes now at rest and try to comprehend the endless individual stories of the places and battles they fought. You do a great job editing your travel videos, its easy to tell you really like what youre doing in video work, it shows in the great end result. Abbey looks like a nice gal, its great to have someone like her to enjoy a road trip with.
yambo59 Thank you very much for all of the great comments. I enjoy seeing old places like this with so much history to them. This particular Fort had a lot of history from past wars but best people come to read and learn that for themselves. We have a cemetery on the base here like your talking about. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and yes Abby makes a great partner! She loves the road trips with me.
My wife And I toured Fort Morgan not long after we were married nearly 30 years ago. Watching your video brings back good memories. We also took the ferry ride. I almost got seasick, haha. I've always had a problem with motion sickness. It was very windy that day.
Great video as usual, Adam. You and Abby seem to make a good couple. Glad to see y'all enjoying yourselves. Keep the travel videos coming!
+Rick Hendrix Wow! It's like we were reliving your time there!
Hi I saw fort Morgan today I'm here for fall break. I Noticed that this place had been in bad danger I did my best to help they are the best but they went agents us we live in Georgia I love to be in Gulf Shores this is the best. I want to live here. The fort was my favorite though I thought that it would be worse then any of the other states. I hope every other person liked it just as me see you later alligator. Byeeee
The last time I was at Ft Morgan was in 1983-84 school field trip. Thank you guys for a cool trip down memory lane. Matt C
The camera work and editing are getting pretty good there Adam.
Visited Fort Morgan last summer while on vacation.
I assume the ferry runs every half hour.
In San Diego we have Point Loma it's an old Naval base on the Peninsula with gun bunkers spaced along the under the road. They are used for storage so not open for tour. The old lighthouse is a museum. The coast guard runs a lighthouse out on the point. Out near the point you can see the ships coming in to and out of the Port of San Diego.
On the bay side of the peninsula there's an area called "Ballast Point." My late uncle, who was in the Navy during WWII, stationed on the USS New Jersey, told us that back in the sailing ship days, ships would anchor there and heave a lot of their ballast because it was a shallow water bay. After loading up, they would stop at ballast point to load some ballast to balance the load, then off they'd go, sailing into the sunset.
Good info! Thanks
Hi Adam loved the tour of Fort Morgan, keep up the good work.
I'm from Missouri and I was down in gulf shores this that week for vacation. it's a nice place.
Great beaches there!
Adam,
I always enjoy your trips and history lessons. I think it's really cool to see what things were like back hundreds of years ago. Thanks for the informative video! BTW, Abbie and you make a nice couple. You look like you really enjoy each other's company.
Have a good one!
Dave
Great video Adam thanks
Hi Adam
Thank you for allowing us to join your tour :-)
Very interesting and informative. I felt like I was walking along with you both.
I found the leak repair attempts of the overhead casement area fascinating. I imagine the casements were covered with earth as they are to reduce the damaging impact of shelling?
Please give my regards to Abby as well.
vic
Abby, Adam,
Great tour. Thanks
Gary 74-Year-Old Home Shop Machinist.
adam very informative video thank you.
loved it, thank you !
Wow, you guys got a beautiful nature! I really want to visit USA with my wife someday. I guess I have to finish my education first :P
If you like old buildnings and forts you guys should visit Sweden, we have a lot of old castles, buildnings, cities and forts =)
Lillebroor Abby is in for visiting Sweden! She loves travel.
You should come! =) Best time to visit Sweden would be from june to late august/september. At those months it´s always daytime (or a couple of hours of darkness depending where in the country you are) and warm.
Man I frigging love your vids. it's everything that interests me. Cheers Abom. Tell Abby (spelling) she seems like a sweet woman. glad to see you both enjoying this.
+Dean Levi Thanks Dean, and I just read your comment to her. 👍🏻
Remember going through there as a kid (10-11). 50 years ago.
TV is so full of garbage. It is nice to just chill and watch stuff like this. Had to have been hot as hell there but who cares looked like a blast.
Metz's Mayhem It wasn't too bad, but the blazing heat of summer is right on our door step
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Enjoyed that Adam. Like you I've lived in the panhandle all my life and I have never been there. Lots of cool history. Thanks a bunch. R
AD4MRick Gotta take a weekend and check it out man! 👍🏻
It was so awesome
Nice video Adam, looks like a nice place to visit.
It is, good vacation beach.
There's an old fort on Whitby Island in Washington State near where the ferry to Port Townsend crosses called Fort Casy. There are two big guns there too. I think the guns are still in place although they are inoperable.
nice , really nice. thank s for sharing . for me these videos are like a "short" vacation :)
love the new videos adam
Adam, If you get out to San Francisco, you might like to tour Fort Point, It's an old fort like this one, set just under the Golden Gate Bridge. The area is called the Presidio of San Francisco, it's history goes all the way back to 1776.
COOL !!
Very cool vid. Thanks Adam and Abbey. Abbey get extra credit for being extra cool... :-)
That made her happy
i recent just went there. my family took me to this place near it, you could hear a ghost of a man crying at night because he hung himself. when my family took me there at 10PM at night, i stayed in the car cause i was scared, when they turned around they saw a ghost running towards them so they ran in the car with me and we drove off, later we found hand prints all over the windows and no one touched the windows. turns out while i was in the car alone i was being surrounded by ghost.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mashed the like button with a 12 lb. sledge and now need a new phone. Oopsie! Love these videos, Adam.
This looks amazingly like Fort Stevens in NW Oregon, about 10 miles from here. Same disappearing gun emplacements, steep stairways, etc. Started during the civil war to protect the mouth of the Columbia river from Confederate raiders. Never saw action until ww2, when a Japanese sub fired a few rounds at the fort. Missed by about 5 miles.
I think many of the coastal forts were made in this 5 star pattern. Cool info.
That structure at ~11:45 sure looks like a shot heating oven... and you confirm that at ~12:15... ;^)
They'd get the iron cannonballs hot enough that they'd be able to ignite rope, canvas, and some wood on the old wooden ships.
A fire on a wooden ship with muzzle loading black powder cannons would ruin the crew's attention for things like bombarding the shore.
chemech Yep I wasn't ware of it until another viewer left a comment detailing how they used it. And here I thought they put the pizza oven in the wrong spot
It sure does have the right aspect ratios for a pizza oven, doesn't it??? ;^)
Adam the quality of this video is fantastic is like watching Blu Ray :-)
Thank you!
I have been to Fort Morgen it is really cool.
I came here every year on school field trips because I grew up in fairhope Alabama
I’ll be there in 2 days can’t wait
Saw it yesterday just before going to bed. 8 hours difference here in Greece but did enjoy it. My ultimate travel goal is a road trip in US so it is nice to see in advance some nice spots. Good job Adam :)
+Polis Dimitriadis Lots to see here and I only have show a few of my local spots.
I bet... US needs a lot of time and a lot of money to explore. But the experiences also would be priceless.
Love Abby's shirt!
We've been waiting to see who notices it!
its good video!!
I think high resolution stills are best/needed for the placards. You can fill the frame and it scales up much better than video. Like you do at the end of a SNS video. Really like the tours. You might want to look at some of Harry Rodgers tours, I like them. No I didn't watch the last minute before I wrote this.
You must have gone around the block. I aw a repeat of some of the video LOL
Hi Adam, who needs 'Discovery' and 'National Geographical' we have 'Abom and Abey'. (Abbey ?) Thanks for sharing big chap. Kindest regards. Joe.
Joe McIntyre Thanks Joe! We have more adventures awaiting us!
A suggestion for another semi-local trip would be the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo in Gulf Shores. They were on TV a few years ago. See you at the Bar-Z. Jon
Might have to check it out
Way cool Adam, way cool.Enjoyed every minute od it. I even really liked the tunes, what music piece is that called?
+Keith Hansen Glad you like it Keith. I purchased a few songs for use in my videos, including the rights to use it.
Cool, I like the Cleveland Indians hat.
Had to pick me a nice team had for this year, and I have always liked Ohio
Lol, I grew up in CLE. I have to be an Indians fan.
Hot shot is a very interesting item. You take an iron cannonball, toss it in the oven and let it heat to cherry red. Then it is removed from the furnace, carried to the cannon and loaded in after being scraped to remove scale. They would elevate the cannon muzzle, then ram the powder, a dry plug of hay then a wet clay plug (or wet hay if clay wasn't available) then the hot shot and another wet plug. The cannon was then aimed and fired. IF for some reason the shot was canceled they would still fire it, just in a safe direction.
+Blazer02LS That makes a lot of sense what it was used for now, I'm assuming to catch the ships on fire when hit with the hot cannon ball. Must have been amazing to see happening at night.
Yep, They even determined that lowering the powder load made the shot "stick" in the wood to cause a fire faster. Look at where the furnace is and think of the guys running between it and the guns with a red hot ball of iron.... Or being the poor SOB on the deck and seeing one coming at you....
IRON WORK! How about the brick and stone? How about the arches and tunnels? Come on Adam, give us bricklayers some credit, too! Just kidding. The fort at St. Augustine is made of a soft stone like stuff that actually would capture cannon balls and keep them from going through. I think it is called coquina or something like that. That little building was either a powder magazine or an out house. Kidding again, thanks for a great tour, Greg.
+Charles Compton Ha! I was equally impressed with the brick work but I guess it's just natural to look for the iron work, me anyways. I always love these old war structures.
+Charles Compton BTW the bricks were Abby's favorite part! 👍🏻
Dude, I work at DISL... Next time you're close let me show you around the lab. Lots of cool research happening right now!
+Grant Lockridge I just read your comment out loud to Abby and she is overwhelmed with excitement and said yes yes yes!! LOL! I'd love to plan a day to come and visit you and see the lab. Way cool!
Abom79 I'm free this weekend, or next. I could do next Thursday or Friday if that's better
Abom79 just sent a Facebook PM with my contact info.
+Grant Lockridge It would have to be a Saturday or Sunday for me to make it over.
Abom79 no sweat man. Whenever it's convenient for you... I've learned a lot from your videos, so the least I can do is give you a tour. Cheers
Hi Adam love the video as always. Was that Mobil bay as in the oil companie or have I misunderstood
Mobil is a company not affiliated with Mobile bay, that I know of.
Abom79 Thanks for replying. I just thought with all the oil rigs there might be some connection just me putting 2 and 2 together and coming uo with 5 lol
Another great tour Adam, thanks. Some drone footage of the fort would have been nice, have you thought about getting one? You'd master that no probs.
It would be cool, maybe one day but it hasn't been a priority yet.
I love Ft. Morgan. We rent a house out there every year for vacation time. Best beach in the world.
It has a very similar look and vibe to Fort George just outside Inverness Scotland. I do all the pyrotechnics and fireworks display every year for the military tattoo there. It's still in use although it's open to the public to walk around. I think it's earmarked for closure in the near future though. Government cut and all.
Gaz Pyrotechnics there are a lot of similar forts on the east coast of the US, maybe on the west coast too, but I don't know. The east coast forts were last updated around world war two. Some are largely abandoned, some are parks, and a few are historical sites with tours and everything.
But it looked so cool
Looking for more that
The light you showed late in the video, The lens are called Fresnel lenses, their construction is amazing.
+dejanira2 They have some beautiful craftsmanship to them!
Nice Vid! @13:20, Confederate 6.4" Brooke rifle. Was the breech blown off? Before or after the fort was taken by the invaders?
12:41 you can see where there used to be trolley track on the ceiling likely for moving the heavy shells out to the guns. Funny to think how the simple invention of airplanes made such forts virtually obsolete.
+bcbloc02 I believe I remember reading somewhere about 1944 the coastal forts were no longer suited for defense and decommissioned. I love touring these places.
Adam, ,if u ever get a chance go, to Fort McHenry in Baltimore there is 12 inch guns mounted every couple of yards and Fort Carol can be seen from the Key Bridge
+eddie durbin Awesome! I'll keep that in mind. The old coastal forts are so cool to see.
yes they are
shame they dont have one of those big guns still up. Great video.
Nice Indians cap. Go Tribe!
go tribe!!!!!!
THUMBS UP
I must’ve missed it but did you include prices?
Like the video but loved that hat huge an and indians fan
Braves, no?
+Robert Weigle I've always loved the Indians, ever since Major League. I like the logo so I had to finally pick up an official hat for baseball season.