American History Tour Series:
Fort Pickens

Fort Pickens was a Union stronghold that is located in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. It's most famous occupant was not a soldier, but a prisoner. Geronimo was kept at the Fort after his capture.

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Images of Fort Pickens

• Entry Gate
  
  
• Panoramic View
  
  
• View of Crumbling Outer Wall
  
  
• Staircase Leading to the Top of the Tower Bastion
  
  
• Counterscarp Wall and Moat
  
  
• Looking into the Fort from the Tower Bastion
  
  
• 8" Rodman Mounted on the Northwest Wall
  
  
• 15" Rodman Mounted Guarding Pensacola Bay
  
  
• View of Pensacola Bay from the 15" Rodman
  
  
• Interior gunroom or casement.
  
  
• View of the Arch System Supporting the Outer Walls
  
  
• Window in the Northwest Outer Wall
  
  
• Prison Cell Identical to Geronimo's Cell
  
  
• Another View of the Prison Cell
  
  
• Pensacola, City of Five Flags
  
  

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  Photo Courtesy of James E. Rawe, 2001.