Fort Pickens Walking Tour

By 1825, legislation was passed to establish a navy yard and depot on the Pensacola Bay. Fortifications were needed to protect the new territory. Fort Pickens worked with Fort McRee on Perdido Key to guard the entrance to Pensacola Bay. Fort Barrancas and Advanced Redoubt guarded the Pensacola Navy Yard from land attacks. Fort Pickens joined the National Park Service's Gulf Islands National Seashore in 1971. Today the fort stands as a monument to military technology and as a memorial to past injustices