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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2011
Description: 16 million bricks is just a number until you stand inside the fort and are awed by the scope of its construction and the audacity of its builders, to construct something like this so far from the rest of civilization as it was in the 1800's. As there was no source of fresh water, the fort was constructed to collect rainwater from the parapets and divert it into cisterns built into the foundations. Each level of the fort and each opening was designed to hold a cannon. Plans called for several hundred to be installed, but the shifting ground of the island caused subsidence and the invention of the rifled cannon, which could penetrate the walls of the fort, meant that it would ultimately be abandoned before completion.
Date Taken: Apr 6, 2011
Place Taken: Fort Jefferson
Owner: Dave Forster
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Category: 242, Searey Adventures
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Ed Irizarry - Apr 06,2011   Viewers  | Reply
    This was the home of Dr. Mud (prisoner). Dr.Mud fixed Wilks Booth broken leg after Booth shot president Linclon and jumped over the balcony at Ford Theater. Dr. Mud's desendanst remain avtive clearing their ancestors name.     


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