Fort Macomb

ID: 170 ~ Source: Photograph taken by New Orleans Historical team member. ~ Date: 2012

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Color photograph of a brick fort surrounded by water with greenery growing on top of the fort and wooden pilings sticking out of the water in the foreground.

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Fort Macomb

By The New Orleans Historical Team & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Constructed in 1822 under the direction of architect Simon Bernard, Fort Wood was thought to be impregnable to enemy troops attacking in the narrow straits of lakes Borgne and St. Catherine. In 1851,…