Fort Massachusetts Tour: Stop 9

Fort Massachusetts Guardrooms

NPS Photo/Kiss

Quick Facts

Location:

Ship Island, Mississippi

Amenities

2 listed

Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Trailhead

Guardrooms

One on either side of the sally port, are rooms created to house soldiers. However, most of the soldiers lived outside the fort.

A narrow opening in the walls allowed the soldiers to fire on enemy forces with rifles. In the rear left corner there is a rack holding long cannon tools with a cannon ball and a smaller shot on the floor at the right.

Feel free to touch this display.