Fort Pike
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| Location | Orleans Parish, Louisiana |
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| Nearest city | New Orleans and Slidell |
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| Area | 9.6 acres (3.9 ha) |
| Built | 1819 |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000557[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 14, 1972 |
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Fort Pike State Historic Site is a decommissioned 19th-century United States fort, named after Brigadier General Zebulon Pike. It was built following the War of 1812 to guard the Rigolets pass in Louisiana, a strait from the Gulf of Mexico, via Lake Borgne, to Lake Pontchartrain bordering New Orleans.[2] It was located near the community of Petite Coquille, now within the city limits of New Orleans.
The fort's ruins have long been a tourist attraction with periods of abandonment. The fort was damaged by the Hurricane Katrina storm surge in 2005, and closed for a period. It also had to be closed following Hurricanes Gustav and Isaac in 2008 and 2012, respectively.
History
A fort had been constructed in 1793 at Petit Coquilles, and was the intended destination of Jones's gunboat squadron prior to the Battle of Lake Borgne. General Jackson's engineer, Major Latour, lamented upon the state of the fort in 1814.[3] Postwar, it was decided to improve the coastal defences with the creation of Fort Pike commencing in 1819 to replace the earlier fort. It was the first of three forts to be constructed in Louisiana under the postwar "Third System", along with Fort Jackson, Louisiana, and Fort Livingston, Louisiana.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. During the Seminole Wars in Florida through the 1820s, the US temporarily held Seminole Indians here who had been taken prisoner. They were eventually transported to the Seminole Reservation in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma.)
The Louisiana Continental Guard took control of the fort in 1861, just weeks before Louisiana joined the Confederacy and the American Civil War began.
When Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, the Confederate forces evacuated Fort Pike. The Union reestablished control of the installation, using it as a base for raids. The fort also became a site for training of United States Colored Troops, established in 1864. These soldiers in the South included mostly former slaves.[4][5]
The fort was abandoned by the United States Army in 1890. No cannon was ever fired in battle at Fort Pike.[5] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[6] It was maintained as part of a state park, known as the Fort Pike State Historic Site.
Before Hurricane Katrina, the fort's brick-and-mortar structure was decaying. The 2005 storm surge exacerbated the problems. It temporarily completely submerged the entire fort, and destroyed adjacent state park buildings.[6] The site officially reopened on May 2, 2008.[7] However, due to damage caused by Hurricane Gustav in early September 2008, the park was closed indefinitely. As of June 2009, the fort was open. It is undergoing extensive repairs and restoration work.[6][8] After Hurricane Isaac in 2012, the fort was closed indefinitely pending repairs and debris cleanup.[9]
The fort was re-opened to visitors following Hurricane Isaac, but closed again in February 2015 due to state budget cuts.[10]
Representation in media
- The fort was used in the final sequence of the 1974 film Nightmare Honeymoon.
- The fort was used in the 2013 film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and represented Fort Sumter of Charleston, South Carolina, where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired.
- The fort was used in a scene of the 2016 NCIS: New Orleans episode "Second Chances" (season 2, episode 16).
- The fort was also used in the movie Jonah Hex
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. "Fort Pike Historical Marker".
- ^ Latour (1816) p.7 'The fort of Petites Coquilles was not finished at the time of the invasion, nor was it in a condition to make an ordinary resistance'.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fort Pike State Historic Site". Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Civil War Military Sites". Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Archived from the original on April 14, 2006. Retrieved March 21, 2006.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Purpura, Paul (March 21, 2006). "Hurricane Katrina devastated Forts Jackson, St. Philip and Pike". Times-Picayune. pp. A-1, A-11. Retrieved March 21, 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Louisiana State Parks Press Release". www.crt.state.la.us. Archived from the original on July 1, 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Status of Hurricane-Impacted Sites". Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Archived from the original on May 25, 2006. Retrieved March 21, 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fort Pike State Historic Site". Louisiana State Parks. Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Louisiana closes unique Fort Pike to visitors, lays off staff amid budget cuts". Retrieved May 1, 2015.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coleman, Elaine (2005). Louisiana Haunted Forts. Lanham MD: Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-46-170909-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Latour, Arsène Lacarrière (1816), Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814–15, with an Atlas, Translated from French into English by H.P. Nugent, Philadelphia: John Conrad and Co, OCLC 40119875
External links
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- Fort Pike State Historic Site - official site
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