Fort Pickens Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2017
- Fort Pickens is one of three coastal forts that were constructed to guard the entrance to Pensacola Bay. It's located on the Western end of Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola Beach, and is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. The State Park has plenty to offer including camping, fishing, beaches and swimming.
The fort is loaded with history from the Civil War, and all the way to WW2. There are several other batteries that were constructed in the early 19 hundreds around the fort as weapons and attack from air become a threat.
Come along for the beautiful ride along the white sandy beaches that take you to the location of the fort, and explore with us. This is a great place to see and learn about!
Because of the length of the video, I broke this up into two parts.
Info on Fort Pickens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pi...
www.nps.gov/guis/learn/histor... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Came from Aussie to Pensacola 2019 and Fort Pickens was a highlight. Loved it. That and the Naval Aviation museum. Could easily live in Pensacola....Thanks for the tour!!!
Good for you guys getting some great exercise and for bringing us along to share in your outing. Good stuff.
Fort Pickens beautiful Fort been there so many times and the beaches near it are so gorgeous the sand is pure white and the ocean is sky blue
I grew up going to Fort Pickens every year and love the fort and campground! SO glad you gave it some attention as most people like to forget Fort Pickens! I've been to the fort a hundred times and swam in the gulf and the bay tons of times. I LOVE Pensacola! Subscribed since you payed some respect to my favorite place to vacation! Much love!
Thank you both for another great adventure!
Another excellent adventure. Thanks again.
It is surly amazing how much work went into building that fort. No way they could build something like that today.
Nice place. Thanks for the ride!
Thanks for taking us along on the ride, Adam. Always interesting to see history like this. And you're right about masons being an underappreciated trade - it's a real art form with some of the things they can and have done.
I'm so glad I came upon this video. I lived in Pensacola as a child and remember coming here with my parents. That was 40 years ago. They took a picture of me sitting on a cannon there. I wonder if it's the one you showed in the beginning..
The wagons that are used in transporting artillery are called Caissons (kay- sons). The official Army song is named "the caissons keep rolling along".
Cool...didn't know that.
Nice hat! I love Florida apparel 😊
Thanks for the TOUR, YOU TWO..
Used to go diving off the beach in Ft. Pickens with Gulf Coast Divers!
Thanks for the tour Adam and Abby! You made me jump in the tunnels at 20:18. Love Abby's comment after you stumble, "there's a step there!" :D
Yea there was a bump in the bricks in the floor that made me trip up, I thought it was funny enough to leave in the video.
I believe that was a caisson at the ten minute mark. You would have to hook at least two horses to it, as it has a pole instead of shafts. The ones I've seen were pulled by four to six. The cannon was hooked to the back of it, and the horses pulled it even at a gallop, and back with speed and precision to put it where it needed to be to fire.
Great video, thank you.
Thanks for sharing !!
So much history. Thanks for taking us along with you on your adventures. Your gyro mount & GoPro are a fantastic combo producing stable video in near darkness. It must have taken ages to colour grade & edit.
Nice to see you out in the Dodge, Adam. Great sound!!
Abom, inside those long, dark tunnels is always cool. That is one of my favorite places in Pensacola.
thankss
A pretty awesome tour, just imagine how many bricks were used, wow!
That is a huge site, really interesting to see.
Cool. Thanks!
Great video I just going to have to come across the pond to visit the area 👍👍🇬🇧
Awesome!
That 'fragile' cannon and ammo carrier reminds me of the Edinburgh tattoo, the royal marines strip both, climb a wall, traverse a wire, then down from another wall in a race against another team, at the end of the run they have to assemble them and fire a blank round
Search for "Royal Military Tournament Field Gun Race" and you'll find several vids.
Adam, I really like the way you shoot the plaques so that we can freeze the picture and read them, them super considerate! My brother-in-law is trying to convince me to move down, but when you said it's Africa Hot, well, I don't know. I'd hate to become a pesky neighbor so's I could enjoy that new A/C! great video, as always!
Rich
I do that to try and help tell the story. Easy for the viewer to pause the video and learn more reading those then I can explain.
I know it's been a very long time since I've been here, nothing looks right. When I lived in Pensacola all of this was still mostly overgrown and nature had taken most of these areas back. It's really depressing to see it this way. Most of the sand dunes have been leveled. I can't believe how much the beach and everything else has changed. My heart is broken.
I miss my home, can't wait to move back!
Can you imagine how loud one of those cannons going off were??? and if multiple were firing at once.
A howitser and ammunition cart are harnessed behind horses and that is the "gun carriage " used to carry the coffin in military ceremonial funerals
Thank you for sharing your vacation with us
A F Pienaar
Johannesburg
Little wagon with the box on top's a caisson, a portable ammunition chest.
Thanks, wasn't sure.
Can't keep your hands off history . me neither, that white sand beach wow there's a place in big sur where you stand up on a hill and look down the beach to the horizon and you see the curvature of the earth I'm gonna watch this again in the winter when I haven't seen the sun in weeks it'll fix me up good
+Random Dude I love seeing these old places, it amazes me!
Loved the videos! We enjoy watching your adventures. I have to ask... what motor is in your vehicle? Lord have mercy it sounds good.
That kind of brick work is why we are called meticulous arrangers of artistic clay products. Those arches are very strong; the weight of everything above them is transferred down to the foundation. The weight is transferred from brick to brick so it's hard for them to fall. It would be easier to tear them down by pushing up at the middle or part way down. I have worked on many like these but they are not as old...yet. They'll outlive me unless they tear them down.
It seems like a beautiful and functional way of building that you don't really see much anymore. I'd love to have a shop that was built in similar ways of these old forts, with the old brick and arches.
good work stabilizing brickwork while maintaining aged appearance.
I love brickwork, also! Started in the trade officially 1968 but actually did my first project in 1964 between my junior and senior year in high school. Greg
I used to fire 'em.
1.1million engineering and facing bricks a week in a 100m tunnel kiln.
That fort is on a pretty narrow stretch of land... Slim Pickens?
Never knew Slim Pickens had his own fort.
It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens
Abom79 I was just funning. When you've watched Westerns for many decades as I have you can't hear Fort Pickens without remembering ol' Slim (R.I.P.).
adom what motor you driving sounds awesome
+ian coupe20v Its a Challenger Scat Pack with the 6.4L Hemi
this is unknown to me but just googled it awesome bit of kit puts my car to shame i drive a citroen zantia 2.1 turbo diesel booooring we do not have muscle cars in the uk
Looks like the cannon attaches to the back of the ammo cart.
I overlooked that
I've been there. In the hallway when I was walking, I saw almost at the end where a man was in uniform and was point a rifle outside some kind of a window. He didn't looked at me. I thought he was an actor. However, my phone rang in my pocket so I looked down, grabbed my phone and as soon as I looked back up, he disappeared instantly. I walked further down there and I didn't see anybody there. Can anyone explain this to me?
Question: Where were all those bricks made?
Most of them were made locally in the Pensacola area.
Abom79 I find bricks fascinating. It's kind of similar to making parts. There is a lot that goes into it, and people take it for granted. A lot of bricks were made with a maker's mark. That will tell you the origin and or factory that the brick was made in. Just think how many Masons and how many bricks were made and layed to make that Fort.
I’ve been there
Story on the Steen "Parrott's rifle" canon and munitions caissons;
www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/03/31/fort-pickens-replica-parrott-riffle-civil-war/99696054/
Thanks for sharing!
Parrot rifle cannon with Limber wagon that carried ammo
I live in pensaacola
That little explosion killed someone? Lol
Of course! Controlling the recoil of the cannon. You still not married that girl yet, Adam?
Disappointed was hoping for another avon79 video