"Fort Macomb at the Chef Menteur, Moat and Sally Port"

ID: 5452 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of John Geiser III, 2009.0045.3. ~ Creator: Betsy Swanson, Photographer ~ Date: 1968

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Black and white photograph of brick fort surrounded by trees and moss and reflecting off the water of a moat

This file appears in: Fort Macomb

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,…