Fort Foote Bombproof Magazine remains

The forest takes over the remains of Fort Foote's bombproof magazine

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Crumbling concrete is all that remains of Fort Foote's bombproof magazine. It’s one of the few left of its kind from the Civil War. Inside the magazine’s storage rooms, barrels held 40-pound, or 18-kilogram, linen bags of black powder. Soldiers carefully carried pass boxes filled with bags to the Rodman Gun to ready its next shot.

“The magazines are perfectly dry, and no complaints were ever made of ammunition having been damaged, either by leakage or by imperfect ventilation.”
- Brevet Major General John G. Barnard, Engineer, US Army