National Register Listing

Fort Morgan

Western terminus of AL 180, Gasque, AL

Fort Morgan, overlooking the entrance to Mobile Bay commemorates the famous sea battle of August 1864, which sealed off one of the last two Confederate ports in the Civil War. The fort played a crucial part in the unsuccessful defense of the bay, and did not surrender until siege and constant shelling had reduced it to rubble.

Mobile Point and Fort Morgan were reactivated as military installation and training ground during the Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II and contain evidence of military occupation dating from Civil War through 1945, including the sunken ironclad, U.S.S. Tecumseh, which lies offshore northwest of the fort, and several ca. 1900 batteries, as well as some frame buildings used as barracks in this century.

Local significance of the building:
Military

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.