Fort Gaines is a fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States. Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ... Dauphin Island is a barrier island on the western edge of Mobile Bay. ... Alabama is a state located in the southern United States; the population of Alabama is 4,447,100 as of 2000. ...
The forts plan called for ten guns to be mounted on top of each of the five walls.
Gaines' men pursued Burr to the vicinity of Fort Stoddert in what is now Washington County, Alabama just north of Mobile.
The role of FortGaines in the Battle of Mobile Bay, one of the wars most notable naval conflicts, is detailed on the inside and rear covers of this brochure.
FortGaines is the only frontier fort in Georgia still surviving as an incorporated municipality.
General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, born in Virginia in 1777, arrived at the fort in 1816 with the fourth infantry of the U.S. Army, which honored Gaines by naming the fort in his honor.
The old Frontier Cemetery is the burial place for many of the original founders of FortGaines and includes the grave of John Brown, the second president of the University of Georgia.
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