Thursday, May 3, 2012

Fort McRee, Florida

While doing a blog entry on Perdido Key on my Roadlog blog, I came across this Civil War fort, which guarded the western entrance to Pensacola Bay, across from Fort Pickens.  It was a masonry fort built before the war and took part in the shelling of the Union-held Fort Pickens.

I was under the idea that it was no longer there, but it must be as the source I was using mentioned McRee's ruins, although accessible only by boat and with no facilities. 

I'll be doing some more research on it.

Still There After All These Years.  --Old B-Runner

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