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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AVJ_energy-from-the-sands-of-time_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
The platform that you can see east of Dauphin Island is operated by one of many oil and gas companies operating in Alabama waters. These platforms are extracting natural gas (methane), a relatively clean-burning petroleum product. The platform its…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS5_british-occupation-of-dauphin-island_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
When British forces arrived at Mobile Bay to assault Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point, half of the British army under the command of Sir John Kean, who was recovering from wounds suffered during the defeat at New Orleans, was landed on Dauphin Island t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQD_dauphin-island-indian-shell-mound-park_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
This park and bird refuge dates from the Mississippian Period (AD 1100 to 1550). Native Americans, who roasted oysters and fished in adjacent Dauphin Island Bay, visited the shell mounds for centuries. From excavations carried out in 1990, archaeo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY6_19th-century-shipwreck_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
The huge timbers you see are a ship's keel section, washed ashore in the fury of Hurricane Georges in the fall of 1998. A house was destroyed with it's impact. The remains formed the bottom ridge line of the ship and would have held the ribs of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY5_to-be-blown-to-kingdom-come_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
Once Farragut was in the Bay, capture of Fort Gaines and Powell would prevent his isolation there. So at 4:00 pm, August 3, 1864, 1,500 soldiers commanded by U.S. General Edward Canby (but under the operational direction of General Gordon Granger)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY4_save-your-garrison_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
The Confederates built Fort Powell on Tower Island, an oyster shell bank fifty feet north of Grant's Pass. The Pass provided an easy route from Mobile Bay to New Orleans through Mississippi Sound. C.S. Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams, only 25…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY3_storm-clouds-gather_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
To Wait and Watch In late August 1864 the Federals controlled Mobile Bay but could not attack Mobile. Admiral Farragut could not reach the City even with his light draft vessels, because the channels in the upper Bay had been obstructed. Nor was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY2_damn-the-torpedoes_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
At 7:25 a.m., August 5, 1864, Admiral Farragut's lead monitor Tecumseh steered into the torpedo field at the mouth of Mobile Bay. The admiral had ordered Commander Tunis Craven, the Tecumseh's captain, to engage the ram Tennessee. Then west of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY1_anchor-from-u-s-s-hartford_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
This anchor came from the U.S.S. Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flagship during the Civil War "Battle of Mobile Bay" in August of 1864. It was there that he uttered the now famous words, "Damn the Torpedoes—Full Speed Ahead!"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQC7_fort-gaines_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
Established in 1821 for defense of Mobile Bay and named in honor of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1777-1849 who played an important part in early Alabama History and while Commandant of Fort Stoddard captured Aaron Burr near McIntosh in Februar…
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