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Exploring The Ruins of This Forgotten Military Fort

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Fort Macomb in New Orleans, Louisiana is hidden from most people. It's covered in thick brush and overgrowth and its walls are slowly breaking apart. Sad to see a place with such amazing history to be so neglected.

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20 Comments

@olewornhat 7 years ago

As a retired bricklayer I can only imagine what it was like to build this fort.

@roblove2301 7 years ago

I think the most incredible part is no graffiti.

@angryhermit6677 6 years ago

Sad to see historic places like that left to go to ruins.

@MarkH10 6 years ago

200 years ago craftsmen had the knowledge, tooling, and experience to build very reliable arches on a massive scale.

@nagel1 7 years ago

Cool to see a bit of history without being spoiled with graffiti ....thanks!

@danielbowman4819 6 years ago

I’m surprised it’s not listed as a National monument or registered as a state historical site?

@jamescarter8421 7 years ago

Man wouldn't you love to see that place when it was new.

@pattyayers 5 years ago

There’s no graffiti because most graffiti artists aren’t going to take a boat or a helicopter to get there and tag something that almost no one ever sees

@Williamsenterprisesinc 7 years ago

Wow back when they built stuff to last

@cplrey 7 years ago

As a retired archaeologist, I wish to thank you for bringing this amazing structure to the public's attention. Although I worked primarily as a prehistoric archaeologist (North America before Columbus), I have always been a military history buff. We have 2 nationally significant sites in our county (state of Ohio) one of which was a Revolutionary War fort. After years of neglect by the state, local civic organizations have taken over the two sites and are managing them with the respect they deserve. Perhaps the same could happen to Fort Macomb. It is really an impressive structure!

@stacymirba1433 6 years ago

Wow, the thousands of man hours that went into building that brick by brick and it's just left like this. But given the place is almost 200 years old the fact that it hasn't completely collapsed says a lot about the craftsmen who built this place.

@DDay-vv9ec 7 years ago

Shame a place like this with such impotant history goes to waste

@mona.stclair 6 years ago

I’d like to thank you for holding the camera so steady. I can’t watch many of the urbex videos because they’re so shaky I get nauseous.

@michaelpicozzi3910 6 years ago

By exploring and putting this on video you did your part for history

@ddoyle11 7 years ago

Beautiful place! I’m so glad the taggers haven’t got hold of it.

@thesouthernhistorian4153 6 years ago

My ancestor actually was posted in the fort after he enlisted in the confederate army but he was transferred and sent to fight in Lee's army.

@HELVIS. 7 years ago

would be a good candidate for magnet fishing or metal detecting !

@rsuriyop 7 years ago (edited)

A place that large and significant to the state's history shouldn't ever have been left to rot from the start; it should have been maintained from the very beginning and marked as a historical monument just like Mount Vernon or Monticello. Thanks again for yet another awesome exploration.