Urban explorer and abandoned sites photographer Liz Roll has compiled a collection of decommissioned U.S. forts throughout the East Coast.
While some are now public parks, like Maryland’s Fort Washington and New Jersey’s Fort Hancock, others are left abandoned and barely noticed like Topsail Island’s towers in North Carolina.
Graffiti covers walls of buildings that once housed artillery and ammunition at Fort Tiden, N.Y., and the base of a fountain once serving as a memorial to Senator McMillan, who pushed for the beautification of Washington, D.C., sits at an onsite dumping ground. Overgrowth covers lookout towers.
Though abandoned and in disrepair, a vague nostalgia and patriotism lingers amongst these sites. Some were established during the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
See the photos here: https://weather.com/travel/news/2019-07-23-abandoned-american-forts-us-photos
“… the base of a fountain once serving as a memorial to Senator McMillan, who pushed for the beautification of Washington, D.C., sits at an onsite dumping ground.”
VERY apropos.
Can’t do much to beautify a swamp.
Wait… that was drained – I meant sewer.
YOU ARE RIGHT MY FRIEND. IT IS NO LONGER A “SWAMP”. IT HAS, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, MORPHED INTO A “JEW SEWER”.