Why Baltimore Disgraced Fort Carroll | ABANDONED
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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Chapters:
00:00 - Discovering Fort Carroll
01:52 - The Military significance of Baltimore Harbor
03:37 - The History of America’s Greatest Sea Forts
05:10 - The construction of Fort Carroll
07:05 - The Downfall of Fort Carroll
09:24 - 20th Century use of Fort Carroll
11:01 - How Preservationists are trying to save the fort
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Are you trying to fill it up with migrants or something?
Just now discovering this after looking at the area on Google Maps after the bridge collapse. It caught my eye and I wondered what it was. Very interesting.
Used to see this place when driving by on the Key Bridge all the time. Thanks for the history on it.
Same here. I lived in Glen Burnie for several years and worked over in Salisbury for awhile. Taught my sons to sail in the bay too. I was of two minds about “saving the bay” and so also had a “pave the bay” bumper sticker for awhile, lol.
Good times, pretty area. I love camping on the eastern shore side. There used to be a nice campground not far from the Key bridge.
I'm from Baltimore and I have driven over this fort on the Key bridge many times and it used to be one of my favorite fishing spots. I caught quite a few monster striped bass and catfish off our boat near the fort walls.
Funny thing is I've never heard of Fort Carroll until now. I've spent almost my entire life (im 40) believing the was actually Fort Armistead because that's what i was told when i was a kid. In fact, my entire family believes this because that's what my grandfather told everyone. Apparently he was mistaken. No one ever had a reason to question it, my grandfather was a wise man after all. There is a Fort Armistead in Baltimore, but obviously this isn't it. Wow, my mind was blown! Just wait til my family finds out 😅 And my last name happens to be Carroll so this has even more significance to me than the average person. The Carroll name is very significant in Maryland and i discovered a few years ago that I'm a distant relative of Charles Carroll.
I used to launch my boat from Ft Armistead which is on the western shore directly across the river from Ft Carroll. I agree with you about the fishing near the fort and the shipping channels. Caught and released many species near there. Striped bass, bluefish, catfish, white perch, spot, croaker, small drum and flounder and even an occasional ray. Also plenty of blue crabs.
@@JimDog794 , Agreed........
Detroit also has a historical fort that is nearly abandoned. Its called historical Fort Wayne. It has a star shaped fortress and some other old barracks and a prison on site. Might be worth doing an episode on it if it hasnt been done already.
I’m a native Detroiter and I’ve never been there. I need to plan a visit.
@@djquinn11 its in Delray by the new Gordie Howe bridge, another cool thing to check out over there. Theres a small boat launch park between Fort Wayne and the new bridge that is a great place to see the bridge. Just a heads up tho that whole area is under heavey construction due to the new bridge but you should be able to get around. Historical Fort Wayne also is still active and allows visitors for certain occasions such as ghost tours and i think things like civil war reenactments. Check it out its worth it!
Nowadays Baltimore just needs to be protected from its own
Maybe you could look at Fort Wool in VA Hampton roads area
That and Ft.Monroe would make for good videos.
Very interesting, thanks for the video 👍
Ryan, your vid's are always enjoyable to watch after a long day at work -- thanks. Looks like a fun place to spend a day, I wonder how much the boat ride is???? Thank Ryan for your time, work and posting.....
I’m from Baltimore and live in Baltimore. This is definitely news to find out about this historic place they don’t teach you in school. No thanks baltimore county public schools, much thanks to its history
Castle Pinckney is a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in 1810.
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Drove over the Francis Scott Key Bridge and saw it yesterday. Didn't know anything about it. Thanks for the great video.
Naming star forts was like collecting stamps back in the 19th century, finders keepers was in full swing.
I appreciate that you are not AI. Nice work.
Glad to hear you mention Ft.Monroe;it was my father’s last duty station before he retired and also my birthplace. Singer/songwriter Steve Earle was also born there. Perhaps a video on Ft.Monroe?
Ft.Monroe.? Is that the one in Hampton
Yes it is.
Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island is a similar fort to protect access to a city - in that case, Wilmington. It was turned over to the state of Delaware after WW2 and is now maintained as a tourist attraction by a group dedicated to its preservation.
Ryan, you should come to Washington State (Pacific Northwest) to check out the 20+ abbandoned Bunkers and Stations across our 400+ mile long coastline.
Even here in Port Orchard that is just south of the USN Bremerton Shipyard, there are at least 3 unknown Military Bunkers that the "Common Folk" drive by every day.
There are so many old forts around the entrance to San Francisco Bay in California. The oldest from the Spanish and Mexican eras are near the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza and the newest are NIKE Missile bases.
There is a old brick fort below the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge called Fort Point. It used the same blueprints as Fort Sumpter, where the Civil Ware really got started.
There are disappearing canon artillery emplacements and World War Two tunnel forts.
There are minefield case mates to detonate underwater controlled detonation mines.
There are gigantic mortar pits.
It is mostly in the Federal Golden Gate Recreation Area.
Reminds me of Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas.
I have an amusing vision of turning it into a museum to hex map wargames. This would be appropriate, as not only is the fort hexagonal, but Baltimore was the home of Avalon-Hill, a noted maker of such games.
It’s amazing how often the adjective “captivating” is used in UA-cam videos.
I’m watching this video while staring at the fort 😁 thank you for the great video.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Been out to Frt. Carroll many of times, back in the late 60's and early 70's. Grew up with a lot of good buddies. One of them owned a boat, and his mom owned a place on Bear Creek, in Dundalk Md. We'd pack a cooler full of beer, a few crab cake sandwiches, a few twisted jays, and out on the water way we'd go ! Frt. Carroll was on our way past open waters. We had friends that lived on the Magothy River, down on Gibson Island.
Sounds like me in the 70's I can relate to that.
I used to live on the water nearby and have been to the fort many times over the past 40 years or so. It's accessible only by boat so there are very few visitors. Currently it is a nesting site for sea birds such as great blue herons, pelicans, snowy egrets, and many more species. I don't think Fort Carroll can be disturbed given the wildlife that call the island home.
There is also Fort Massachusetts in Mississippi, or Alabama.
Is this from The Commonwealth? I bet there’s a settlement that needs my help! 😂
Right out of Fallout 4!!
I remember looking at this fort when I was a kid going over Key Bridge and looking down at it. I thought the fort looked odd.
I would buy it
It's more of a quirky historical footnote. Was Robert E. Lee in the Corps of Engineers?
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In NYC we got many forts. One in front of everyone. It's called fort wood. People pass it everyday. Yet don't really care about fort wood. It's a amazing fort. It also has ghost tales. Like about Captain kidd. The Pirate. Who buried gold. Where is fort wood. Right on liberty Island. Today used by the statue of Liberty. As the base to hold up the statue of Liberty. People died there. Yet the fort was filled in. Look more about fort wood online.
When my dad was a teenager he used to go in the tunnels that connected fort armistead and fort Carroll before they blocked them off
I'm surprised it still stands due to the fact of who was the architect of it all.. it's the same person who designed the water system for Baltimore, which still functions. They are re-doing that in my mind to take his name off of it all as they took down his statue as well. & you diddnt mention the tunnel from ft carrol to the main land..
It would make for a cool coast guard base.
I agree with the sentiment that Fort Carol needs to be saved however it is absolutely not in the right place because of the politics of that city to allow it to be restored.
You don't even mention Pea Patch island in Delaware bay. That fort is much largher than this puny site.
Robert E. Lee was a genius.
Primary mission of the founding of US Military Academy? Combat engineering. West Point’s earliest graduates were tasked with creating coastal defenses, as well as forts and support/supply roads.
Such a beautiful fort. I grew up in Baltimore and it always felt like such a wasted landmark "bird sanctuary" 🙄
A much smaller Fort Monroe existed ,c. 1799. It was there in the war of 1812.
I'm told it is for sale again
With the HUGE crime issue in Baltimore, it could be repurposed into a mini-Alcatraz. A good spot to keep the worst of the worst.
How many stories tall do you think you would have to be?
John Carpenter is smiling somewhere
@@elskid206At least 100.
Nature reserve is best bet, let it go naturally to 🌎
It's already a nature reserve, albeit not officially. It should be left as is, since restoring this useless, historically insignificant fort would not benefit anyone - and it would be a waste of time and money
Sometimes the birthplace of the National Anthem? You do a ton of video about here. Must be from here, check out the flag house.
There is a stars and stripes buoy just north of the Key bridge on the eastern side of the river. That's supposed to be the spot where the ship Francis Scott Key was observing the bombardment of Ft Mc Henry.
Hahaha typical Baltimore. Wasting money on something that’s not even worth anything. Back then they were trying to defend Baltimore against the outside. Today Baltimore is crumbling from the inside ironic
And what are you doing to help change that?
Nancy Pelosi’s father and brother were both multi term mayors. Ever seen the HBO series, The Wire? It’s about Baltimore after the D’Alesandro family destroyed it. Why do you think Nancy went all the way to California?
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It's symbolic of what seems like the entirety of US, every city
And the city was also focused most on railroads especially the B&O
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So it was built but never used. There's some good planning.
Would be a great place for a prison!
It was a foolish build to begin with.
Give it back to the original owner, mother nature.
Seems like a good place for an insane asylum.
Send Illegals there pending Deportation ... hard time trying to escape...
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"Designed by R.L. Lee" means they will never restore it.
There’s zero chance any of the “history” here is accurate. Zero.
You can just assume Baltimore is synonymous with garbage and go from there
Put the immigrants in there
Baltimore and disgrace....kind of the same thing!
money always come down to money...
WHY cant people live there?????????????