Fort Pickens Tour: Stop 7

Fort Pickens Shelf Supports

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Location:

Fort Pickens, Florida

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Trailhead

Gallery and Shelf Supports

This covered walkway is a gallery. A gallery protected soldiers and supplies while moving around a fort in a battle. The Army added concrete stalls to the gallery in the late 1800s.

The original use remains unclear. Soldiers may have used these stalls as shelf supports to store equipment. They could have kept equipment here for the underwater minefield. Or they could have used the supports for a fort inside Fort Pickens named Battery Pensacola.