Instagram NOLADEEJ There are still quite a few coastal forts left, some of which can be visited. I really hope that Fort Pike and nearby Fort Macomb can one day be reopened to the public.
This is great! I really enjoyed it. I would love to be able to give you some information to fix the narrative if you have any interest. I am an historian who studies this period of fortifications - Patrick Duhe knows me - and would be happy to fix a few things in the script and add a little information that you said you were not sure of in the narrative. I'd also be glad to provide a better picture of Fort Jackson - the illustration shown is from the worst book on this period of forts I have ever seen, and is highly inaccurate. Please let me know if I can help. My email is OldFortJW@gmail.com, and my name is John Weaver.
@@DeadlyKnot Fort Massachusetts is a great little fort on Ship Island, off the coast of Mississippi. There is a ferry that takes you to the island and the fort, leaving from Gulfport. It runs through November 1, then closes for the winter.
Really enjoyed this. I visited Ft. Pike while at a conference in New Orleans about 20 years ago. It has really deteriorated due to hurricanes and rising sea level. One of the nice things about Ft. Pike is that it is a pure 3d System fort without the Endicaott and Taft concrete batteries that were added to many 3d system forts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, e.g. Forts St. Phillip, Jackson, Morgan, Sumter, and many others. Unfortunately I am too far away in Wyoming to participate is any restoration as a volunteer.
In the 60's hwy 90 was the road to Biloxi MS where the Big Biloxi St Park was our destination we would stop at Ft. Pike for lunch. The boy scouts were allowed to use a piece of property belonged to the power company that we camped on. A troop leader would drive us to the fort and we hiked back to camp a distance of 20 miles hiking down the side of hwy 90.
Thanks for your historical video. My parents took me to visit Fort Pike several times in the 60s-70s. I went once again before Isaac shut it down. Sure hope Louisiana parks will restore it enough for visitors....even if on a limited basis. It is an important part of the history of the defense of NO.
I was born August 20, 1961. We were raised in an area 6 miles outside of Slidell called Bayou Liberty. Between 1966 and 1968 we went to Fort Pike many times, mostly through the spring and fall seasons. Even back then it was sort of scary. I always liked going there. We would picnic and play ball and fly kites if the wind was strong enough. Great memories of listening to the hits on WTIX and WNOE. But we all know that everything must come to an end at some point. I'm soon to be 63, my sister passed away and we're all getting older. It's nice to look back and remember, but it's sometimes just as depressing. Peace.
I love that fort. I've been there almost a dozen times over the years, and love seeing it again but its also very depressing to see the shape it is in. When I first saw your video post I got excited thinking they might have opened it again. Sadly, it was not to be. Anyway, thanks for the memory and update.
Thank you for a great video. On my one trip to New Orleans in the summer of 2005, just before Katrina, I stopped at Fort Pike. Hope they are able to restore and open to the public again one day. It is such a unique piece of history!
Great video, thank you for putting this together. I lived in Slidell as a youngster and really enjoyed visiting and touring Fort Pike. It's a shame that it is now closed to the public. I hope Louisiana can find the funding for renovations and reopen it to the public. Our history is precious and should always be protected for future generations.
I so wanted to take my kids there. I found out it been closed for few years now. I think right after Katrina. But We tried going last year. I loved going there when I was a kid. It is such an incredible place to see. We went a lot on the 80’s. I remember they even had uniforms on display but someone stole them at some point. It’s sad to see how is has suffered over the years. Hopefully it will be restored before it’s too late. Thanks for this video
Hey!!! I saw you at the beginning of a Google commercial!!! Congrats for your visibility and thanks for showing me around my hometown like we’re buddies. Can’t wait for more!
Your video production is getting better and better! Not that it was ever bad before..but I love your explanation of the history without it being boring. Keep it up my man! Much love!
I have visited several of the forts in Gulf Shores (AL), Pensacola, and Ship Island (MS) but not the forts in Louisiana. Thanks for taking us along on your Fort Pike visit, awesome video!
Thanks for the documentary of this wonderful site. It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with you outside of Fort Macomb on 10/04/2020. You really bring a different twist to abandoned places. Being told the rich history was a perfect touch to your video.
Another winner! Absolutely fascinating! I thought Fort Sumter was great! That place is awesome! I will definitely put it on my bucket list! Thanks for taking us there, Deej!
Just found your channel . I really really appreciate your time spent with the history , That means alot . I do really hope they save this historical fort . I'll be watching more of you videos
I really enjoy the history of our state and I wish these young people will one day understand that not everyone from then where slave owners and leave the history of our city alone. You can't erase history, so we might as well learn from it. Thanks again for a awesome vlog. (....and making to the Google commercial on TBS. :) .. )
What todays revisionism is doing is erasing the many layered culture that made New Orleans so great. When they are finished there will be no stuffed mirlitons, just chayotes .
Wow great documentary on Fort Pike. What an amazing place. Hopefully it can be restored and reopened to the public one day. Thanks for sharing its history with us. I watched BJ's (DeadlyKnot) presentation the other day. 🙂
Thank you! Yeah I'd love to see this opener again. Hopefully the funding can come through and they do some restoration to keep it safe. Yeah BJs video was fantastic!!
@@NOLADEEJ The large openings that the cannon fired through are called embrasures, and the smaller openings for rifle/musket fire are called loopholes. That comes from an old European term for arrow slits in castles, but the name stuck throughout the Third System.
@@NOLADEEJ If you are interested in doing a video on Fort Pickens I'll be on the South Coast at the beginning of November and would be happy to give you any information you need. I'll be doing in-service training for the NPS rangers at Fort Pickens one day - I'm not sure which day yet. I'll be doing four days of training but the only one specified at this point is Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island, Mississippi. That will be November 1. The other three days will be November 2, 3, 4. I just don't know which fort will be which day.
@@NOLADEEJ I can help to make that happen! It's a very interesting fort, and it has a real "bonus." In the early 20th Century an accident blew off one bastion of the fort! While tragic, it gives the visitor a cross-section of the ramparts of the fort. It really shows the way these forts were built.
So sad. I wish the folks in Baton Rouge invested more in our state parks like Mansfield State Historic Site, Winter Quarters and Mansfield Female College, Germantown, Hodges Garden and Rebel State Park.
Its weird like the camera view is the view I saw visiting Fork Pike in the 70's exploring with the Scouts, and another time I visited with when it began flooding regularly, much like old Paris Road to the old pontoon bridge flooded at high tide..
I've always wanted to visit this fort! Thank you for documenting this and giving us the history on it. Is it possible to kayak up to the fort but not go inside? I wouldn't think that would be a problem I want to get a few pictures from the water if I ever get down that way again.
@@NOLADEEJ there's villages in some, most of the city ones are gone now, made me question what I understood from education, turns out I'm now the crazies person ever, good luck in life you all need it!!
There are volunteers that clean it and maintain it when they’re able to. I agree though, I would be fine paying an entry fee to visit and let that money go to upkeep.
It is a real disgrace that the state has let Fort Pike disintegrate to its current condition. I remember at one time there was a small "museum" in the citadel . Maybe one day the Federal Government will take over the Fort and restore it because Louisiana will never do it.
I'd love to see it reopen. The Louisiana State Parks would love to have it open I'm sure, they just need the funding to fix it up from all the storm damage.
@@NOLADEEJ Their real problem is funding for the staffing. Some stabilization is needed, but not a lot. In talking to the Director of Louisiana State Parks, he is more worried about the ongoing expense of keeping it staffed. One-time stabilization funding is easier to obtain than long-term staff salaries.
I discussed a broad period of time and showed whatever photos of the fort I found, never stating that photo was of that specific time. But thanks for the advice
For something that's "abandoned" it sure is maintained well. The Army only decommissioned it, but it wasn't "abandoned." It's part of the Park's Department land and is maintained by them. What is this obsession with the word "abandoned" by young people these days?
It’s maintained by volunteers. It’s owned by the state parks dept but no funding for it. And yes, it’s abandoned because it’s no longer in use in any capacity.
Unfortunately this is all made up history. This is a Tartarian structure aka star fort. The Great Tartarian Empire was world wide and completely erased from our history. In old maps from 1600's you can see the plans of New Orleans which was also shaped in a star. All old maps show this Great Christian Empire world wide. Research Tartaria and what is known as the mud flood. The so called Roman structures are Tartarian structures. It had a king and its own flag. The so called native Indians are Tartarians. Genocide of the tartars took place WW. Please research this huge Great Christian Empire. Our entire history is a lie.
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There are still quite a few coastal forts left, some of which can be visited. I really hope that Fort Pike and nearby Fort Macomb can one day be reopened to the public.
There's one open to the public in mississippi somewhere.
This is great! I really enjoyed it. I would love to be able to give you some information to fix the narrative if you have any interest. I am an historian who studies this period of fortifications - Patrick Duhe knows me - and would be happy to fix a few things in the script and add a little information that you said you were not sure of in the narrative. I'd also be glad to provide a better picture of Fort Jackson - the illustration shown is from the worst book on this period of forts I have ever seen, and is highly inaccurate. Please let me know if I can help. My email is OldFortJW@gmail.com, and my name is John Weaver.
@@DeadlyKnot Fort Massachusetts is a great little fort on Ship Island, off the coast of Mississippi. There is a ferry that takes you to the island and the fort, leaving from Gulfport. It runs through November 1, then closes for the winter.
@@johnweaver561 Oh, so we'd have to be quick!
@@DeadlyKnot We have about three weeks, in fact I think it's three weeks from today!
Really enjoyed this. I visited Ft. Pike while at a conference in New Orleans about 20 years ago. It has really deteriorated due to hurricanes and rising sea level. One of the nice things about Ft. Pike is that it is a pure 3d System fort without the Endicaott and Taft concrete batteries that were added to many 3d system forts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, e.g. Forts St. Phillip, Jackson, Morgan, Sumter, and many others. Unfortunately I am too far away in Wyoming to participate is any restoration as a volunteer.
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In the 60's hwy 90 was the road to Biloxi MS where the Big Biloxi St Park was our destination we would stop at Ft. Pike for lunch. The boy scouts were allowed to use a piece of property belonged to the power company that we camped on. A troop leader would drive us to the fort and we hiked back to camp a distance of 20 miles hiking down the side of hwy 90.
Thanks for your historical video. My parents took me to visit Fort Pike several times in the 60s-70s. I went once again before Isaac shut it down. Sure hope Louisiana parks will restore it enough for visitors....even if on a limited basis. It is an important part of the history of the defense of NO.
Thanks Hank!
This is a true documentary video. Great job Deej! Have a wonderful day!
Thanks so much!!
I was born August 20, 1961. We were raised in an area 6 miles outside of Slidell called Bayou Liberty.
Between 1966 and 1968 we went to Fort Pike many times, mostly through the spring and fall seasons.
Even back then it was sort of scary.
I always liked going there. We would picnic and play ball and fly kites if the wind was strong enough. Great memories of listening to the hits on WTIX and WNOE.
But we all know that everything must come to an end at some point.
I'm soon to be 63, my sister passed away and we're all getting older.
It's nice to look back and remember, but it's sometimes just as depressing.
Peace.
I love that fort. I've been there almost a dozen times over the years, and love seeing it again but its also very depressing to see the shape it is in. When I first saw your video post I got excited thinking they might have opened it again. Sadly, it was not to be. Anyway, thanks for the memory and update.
Yeah, I hope they are able to reopen it at some point. It's such an awesome place!
Thank you for a great video. On my one trip to New Orleans in the summer of 2005, just before Katrina, I stopped at Fort Pike. Hope they are able to restore and open to the public again one day. It is such a unique piece of history!
I hope so too!
Great video, thank you for putting this together. I lived in Slidell as a youngster and really enjoyed visiting and touring Fort Pike. It's a shame that it is now closed to the public. I hope Louisiana can find the funding for renovations and reopen it to the public. Our history is precious and should always be protected for future generations.
Thank you! Yeah it would be great to see it restored and reopened again!
Deej is back and killed it! Good Good my friend!
Thanks bro!!
I so wanted to take my kids there. I found out it been closed for few years now. I think right after Katrina. But We tried going last year. I loved going there when I was a kid. It is such an incredible place to see. We went a lot on the 80’s. I remember they even had uniforms on display but someone stole them at some point. It’s sad to see how is has suffered over the years. Hopefully it will be restored before it’s too late. Thanks for this video
I would love to see it reopen. I would love to take my kids there as well.
Hey!!! I saw you at the beginning of a Google commercial!!! Congrats for your visibility and thanks for showing me around my hometown like we’re buddies. Can’t wait for more!
Very cool!! Haha! Thanks so much!
NOLADEEJ -THANK YOU♥️
Thanks for sharing such historic places. Mother nature sure has her way with your coastline.
Yeah she's not very nice sometimes is she? Lol
Your video production is getting better and better! Not that it was ever bad before..but I love your explanation of the history without it being boring. Keep it up my man! Much love!
Wow thank you!! It really means a lot that you said that! ❤️
Nice video. Just came from fort Ticonderoga. I live in Louisiana, its interesting on the triangle defense from our coast.
I have visited several of the forts in Gulf Shores (AL), Pensacola, and Ship Island (MS) but not the forts in Louisiana. Thanks for taking us along on your Fort Pike visit, awesome video!
Yeah I want to see those as well! Thank you!!
Thanks for the documentary of this wonderful site. It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with you outside of Fort Macomb on 10/04/2020. You really bring a different twist to abandoned places. Being told the rich history was a perfect touch to your video.
Oh awesome thank you so much!! It was so great to meet you! I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip and see some amazing things! ❤️
I love your videos! NOLA is calling my name!
I love it 😊
It was cool seeing you on the Google commercial. I'm from New Orleans but live near Memphis, Tn. and it felt like home for a second.
Aw that's awesome!!
Another winner! Absolutely fascinating! I thought Fort Sumter was great! That place is awesome! I will definitely put it on my bucket list! Thanks for taking us there, Deej!
Thanks so much!!
Fun yes
Very fun!
Just found your channel . I really really appreciate your time spent with the history , That means alot . I do really hope they save this historical fort . I'll be watching more of you videos
Thanks so much! Glad to have you on board 😁
I learn a lot thank you
Thank you!
@@NOLADEEJ you welcome
Always learning so much about my homeland watching your videos. Thanks for the education lesson👍
That's awesome! Thank you!
What an opportunity to document this! Great job 👌 and I heard a voice, looked up, and there you were on a tv commercial! 👏👏👏
Hah that's awesome!! Thank you!
Bro this video is stellar!! This is put together better than most documentaries I see on tv!! Kudos!!
Wow thank you so much! That really means a lot!
Camera upgrade ? Looks a lot better great vid my guy !!!
Haha thank you! Always trying to make it look better 😁
Awesome tour
Thanks Kenny!
I really enjoy the history of our state and I wish these young people will one day understand that not everyone from then where slave owners and leave the history of our city alone. You can't erase history, so we might as well learn from it. Thanks again for a awesome vlog. (....and making to the Google commercial on TBS. :) .. )
What todays revisionism is doing is erasing the many layered culture that made New Orleans so great. When they are finished there will be no stuffed mirlitons, just chayotes .
Nice video. Thanks. Amazing fort
Thank you!! Yeah it's such a great place!
Great work, my friend!
Thanks buddy!
Thank you for sharing another amazing video! That's a beautiful fort! Amazing history lesson!
Yeah this place was really cool, I'm thankful to have been able to go in
So lucky you got to go!!!
Yeah it took a good dude to help us get permission
Lots of info in that one. Great job!
Thank you!
Interesting history on the fort and its setup. I also got my question asked in the preceding video answered. Stay safe my friend.
Haha! You stay safe as well!
Well done video, thank you. Hopefully it will remain safe from vandals until it can be re-opened.
Awesome video Deej! Thanks for the history lesson of the abandoned Fort.
Thanks dude! I'm pretty proud of this one
Im from Bayou Liberty. It's near Slidell. I remember going to fort pike in 1967. I was 6 yrs old but i remember it like it was yesterday.
I csn also remember walking around in all of those rooms that are now covered in water.
My dad took me there when I was a kid, I loved it then and love it now!
Wow great documentary on Fort Pike. What an amazing place. Hopefully it can be restored and reopened to the public one day. Thanks for sharing its history with us. I watched BJ's (DeadlyKnot) presentation the other day. 🙂
Thank you! Yeah I'd love to see this opener again. Hopefully the funding can come through and they do some restoration to keep it safe. Yeah BJs video was fantastic!!
Keep up the great videos. Always informational and interesting.
Thank you!!
Excellent job!! This is a great video. Thanks for taking us along to see the history.
Thanks so much!
Hi, I just saw you on a CBS commercial during Sunday football..Good for you..
Awesome!! That's so cool! Thank you!
This was a fascinating history lesson and you did a great job capturing what’s left of it! 💙Jenn
Aw thank you!! 😊
As always a great video 👍
Thank you!
Cooper wuz here... great video dude
Hah, I'd love to know who he was!
thats an awesome fort nola and very informitive,ty my friend for sharing
Thanks for checking it out!
Great video and information. Found you today by accident. I appreciate the video very much. And the gun or canon holes are called embrasure
Thanks so much! Yeah I wasn't sure if that was strictly referring to holes for cannons or not, lol.
@@NOLADEEJ The large openings that the cannon fired through are called embrasures, and the smaller openings for rifle/musket fire are called loopholes. That comes from an old European term for arrow slits in castles, but the name stuck throughout the Third System.
Well done! This is one I've been wanting to do as well. You killed it!
Thank you!! I've been wanting to do this one for quite a while.
I remember going there when I was kid in the 60’s...lol...nice job
That's awesome!! Thank you!
I visited that fort 45 years ago with my grandmother, also Ft Pickens,
Oh wow! I haven't been to Fort Pickens, but would like to.
@@NOLADEEJ If you are interested in doing a video on Fort Pickens I'll be on the South Coast at the beginning of November and would be happy to give you any information you need. I'll be doing in-service training for the NPS rangers at Fort Pickens one day - I'm not sure which day yet. I'll be doing four days of training but the only one specified at this point is Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island, Mississippi. That will be November 1. The other three days will be November 2, 3, 4. I just don't know which fort will be which day.
@@johnweaver561 hey John, hit me up on Facebook or Instagram or email me noladeej@gmail.com
@@NOLADEEJ I can help to make that happen!
It's a very interesting fort, and it has a real "bonus." In the early 20th Century an accident blew off one bastion of the fort! While tragic, it gives the visitor a cross-section of the ramparts of the fort. It really shows the way these forts were built.
Really nice video. Thanks NOLA DEEJ
Thank you so much!
So sad. I wish the folks in Baton Rouge invested more in our state parks like Mansfield State Historic Site, Winter Quarters and Mansfield Female College, Germantown, Hodges Garden and Rebel State Park.
We stopped a few times on the way to the gulf coast. Haven't been since the 60's.
Oh wow! Hopefully they'll open it again at some point and you can visit it again
Thanks for a great video quess what I found at the store Community coffee I love that coffee its the best dont see it much way up here
Oh nice! Was it chicory? That's the best!
Great job!
Thank you!
Another home run Deej! Really enjoyed this one. Do you have any Halloween videos planned for October? Thanks man and keep up the great work!
Thank you! Yeah got some good stuff planned 😁
Great presentation! The Fort seems to be in pretty good shape, I wish they would restore it! Dude, wear waterproof boots next time!
Yeah it definitely seems like it could be restored. Haha I need to
Its weird like the camera view is the view I saw visiting Fork Pike in the 70's exploring with the Scouts, and another time I visited with when it began flooding regularly, much like old Paris Road to the old pontoon bridge flooded at high tide..
Oh wow! Yeah I have a vague memory of being here in the 80s with my dad.
I've always wanted to visit this fort! Thank you for documenting this and giving us the history on it. Is it possible to kayak up to the fort but not go inside? I wouldn't think that would be a problem I want to get a few pictures from the water if I ever get down that way again.
Thank you! I believe so, it looks like it's open on the lake side
Looks good!
Thank you!
Great video
I hope they can restore it soon
Do fort Jackson next!!
I absolutely want to!
@@NOLADEEJ I went there a bunch as a kid. We loved it.
Great Video handsome! lol
these star forts are all over the world???
There are quite a few all over I believe
@@NOLADEEJ there's villages in some, most of the city ones are gone now, made me question what I understood from education, turns out I'm now the crazies person ever, good luck in life you all need it!!
how do you get permission to visit the fort?
Contact the State Parks dept
Who made the bricks?
Interesting piece of history. Too bad it appears beyond saving
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This is so sad!!!!!
brah i literally live like 5 minutes from that, everytime i go it’s closed :(
Do you have a patron
Not at the moment
i just went today
Obviously much older than 200 years #tartarianreset
Deej If I ever come see you in New Orleans I would love to go visit this place as long as we got permission
I will certainly see what I can do 🙂
Why doesn’t the state ask for volunteers to help keep it open and charge a small fee to help pay the volunteers?
There are volunteers that clean it and maintain it when they’re able to. I agree though, I would be fine paying an entry fee to visit and let that money go to upkeep.
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Kitschy! Good morning to you as well!
It is a real disgrace that the state has let Fort Pike disintegrate to its current condition. I remember at one time there was a small "museum" in the citadel . Maybe one day the Federal Government will take over the Fort and restore it because Louisiana will never do it.
I'd love to see it reopen. The Louisiana State Parks would love to have it open I'm sure, they just need the funding to fix it up from all the storm damage.
@@NOLADEEJ Their real problem is funding for the staffing. Some stabilization is needed, but not a lot. In talking to the Director of Louisiana State Parks, he is more worried about the ongoing expense of keeping it staffed. One-time stabilization funding is easier to obtain than long-term staff salaries.
This is a star fort which means it was something else before it was a fort. They are all over the world. Research star forts
It’s falling apart. They should let it go to perhaps a private organization to restore. Shame to waste public funds on a disaster.
We would go there in the late 60's and have bottle rocket battles....
Again forgotten history by our government!
Probably a common comment: Don’t use photos of forts that are not of the period being discussed.
I discussed a broad period of time and showed whatever photos of the fort I found, never stating that photo was of that specific time. But thanks for the advice
For something that's "abandoned" it sure is maintained well. The Army only decommissioned it, but it wasn't "abandoned." It's part of the Park's Department land and is maintained by them. What is this obsession with the word "abandoned" by young people these days?
It’s maintained by volunteers. It’s owned by the state parks dept but no funding for it. And yes, it’s abandoned because it’s no longer in use in any capacity.
Excellent video! I worry Fort Gaines is headed for this fate as well funding looks sparse.
Thanks man! Yeah it seems to be turning into a trend unfortunately.
Unfortunately this is all made up history. This is a Tartarian structure aka star fort. The Great Tartarian Empire was world wide and completely erased from our history. In old maps from 1600's you can see the plans of New Orleans which was also shaped in a star. All old maps show this Great Christian Empire world wide. Research Tartaria and what is known as the mud flood. The so called Roman structures are Tartarian structures. It had a king and its own flag. The so called native Indians are Tartarians. Genocide of the tartars took place WW. Please research this huge Great Christian Empire. Our entire history is a lie.
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